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Back when Kyoto was divided into blocks of merchants, this area specialised in crafting bamboo. ...

The store looks brand new, but it has been in business for two decades, selling antique ...

A manufacturer of parts for aircraft and bullet trains uses its metalwork expertise to produce ...

It’s not just green tea that gets the ceremonial treatment in Japan. The classical art of kodo ...

In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...

Kyoto designer Masaki Tokuda has a fascination with faces, adding smiles and sulks to ...

Kyoto-ites will argue about the best green tea, but elsewhere in Japan one brand reins supreme ...

Rei Kawakubo designed this store, along with the avant-garde fashion that fills it. A curving ...

It began life as a skater-influenced streetwear boutique, but this store has soared upmarket ...

The Kyoto brand Sou-Sou produces hip reinventions of Japanese workwear. The ground floor offers ...

A textile-dyeing company with a history stretching back to 1919 runs the Pagong brand, best ...

This select gents’ fashion store stocks some of the hottest domestic brands, including the ...

One of Teramachi’s oldest tenants, this store first opened for business in 1663. It stocks a ...

If your friends back home won’t put up with receiving tourist tat as souvenirs, this is the ...

Karakami is the traditional woodblock-printed washi paper that adorns some of Japan’s poshest ...

In the remnants of a building by Tatsuno Kingo, the architect of Tokyo Station and the Bank of ...

Tea bowls priced from ¥2,000 to ¥50,000 (try to spot the difference), colourful tea caddies and ...

This select shop for B-boys likes its clothing bold, colourful and plastered with slogans. It ...

Toyoaki Kuwayama, the son of a kimono-maker, launched the Kyoto Denim brand in 2008, and opened ...