Food Aoi-jaya in Kyoto Station Allie Tan Aoi-jaya serves up delicious meals using Kyoto-grown vegetables and traditional recipes.
20 Kyoto Botanical Garden Conservatory Sam Hardwick This conservatory greenhouse is found in the middle of the Kyoto Botanical Garden. With over 25,000 specimens, it's well wort...
Culture Okochi Sanso Gardens & Tea Room Sam Hardwick The Okochi Sanso Gardens & Tearoom are located in Arashiyama on the slopes of Mount Ogura. Offering beautiful views of Kyoto ...
Culture Osawa-no-ike Pond, Kyoto Sam Hardwick Osawa-no-ike Pond is part of the gardens for the Daikaku-ji Temple in Kyoto. It's a beautiful area to stroll around in the pe...
Culture Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto Sam Hardwick Yasaka Shrine is located in the Gion district of Kyoto, and is not too far from the very popular shopping streets that featur...
Miyagawacho Beer Garden 2026 Yuko Hagihara The Miyagawacho Beer Garden is a rare occasion where you can enjoy beer, daily specialities served by neighboring restaurants...
Fushimi Inari Shrine, Day and Night Tomoko Kamishima Fushimi Inari Shrine, famous for its 10,000 scarlet red torii gates, has a long approach running up a mountain in the south o...
Food Hiroshima Teppanyaki & Okonomiyaki Bonson Lam Hiroshima Teppan Kanoyume is a rare find in Kyoto, specialising in the crunch and lightness of Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki, i...
Activities Pilgrimage to Yoshimine-dera Bonson Lam Yoshimine Temple is number 20 of the 33 temples in the Saigoku or Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage. Founded in 1029, it remains a hav...
Culture Gio-ji Temple, Kyoto: Part 4 of 4 Shozo Fujii A small wooden statue of Giou-ji is enshrined in the main hall. Statues with black-colored eyes are works of the Kamakura per...
