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It’s not just green tea that gets the ceremonial treatment in Japan. The classical art of kodo ...
Women are spoiled for choice when buying kimono in Kyoto; men have to look a little harder. The ...
In a delightful store with a small garden, kimono stylist Motoko Morita will help you team a ...
When Japan hosted the 2008 G8 Summit, the leaders’ wives all received a Kanoko kimono sash. ...
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 ...
The city’s hippest boutique occupies the second floor of a Tadao Ando building, selling designs ...
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 ...
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 ...
The decor is so dazzling that it’s hard to focus on the clothes at this gargantuan boutique. ...
Approaching its 300th anniversary, this paper fan specialist stocks around 100 designs, ranging ...
Filling in gaping holes on the fashion scene in Kyoto, this vast concrete store opened in late ...
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