Food Cafe Cube at Hosomi Museum Okazaki Bonson Lam Eating in an art space somehow makes everything tastes better. From the airy ceilings, the hushed cultured conversations, it ...
Culture Nishijin Textile Center Kyoto Bonson Lam At the Nishijin Textile Center, there are kimono pattern books from the Meiji period in the late 19th century, showing the sy...
Nishimura Garden, Kyoto Tomoko Kamishima Nishimura Garden was a sanctuary for Shinto priests. Nishimura is a family line of priests serving Kamigamo Shrine for over t...
From Kotohikihama to Amanohashidate Cathy Cawood Day spent cycling from Kotohikihama through the interior of Tango Peninsula, with its small towns, rice fields and forested h...
Food Maeda Coffee, Kyoto Arts Center Peter Sidell In Kyoto Arts Center right in the center of Japan's former capital, Maeda Coffee is a good place to enjoy inexpensive drinks,...
Culture Gio-ji Temple, Kyoto: Part 2 of 4 Justin Velgus Gio-ji Temple is more of a hermitage than a temple. It is a building with a kitchen sandwiched between two Japanese style roo...
Activities Nagaoka Tenmangu Azalea Festival Kim Bergström The annual Nagaoka Tenmangu Azalea Festival celebrates the beauty of 150 year old Kirishima azalea bushes, which are in full ...
Culture Sanrio: 60 Years of Kawaii Japanese Culture 2022 Kim Bergström From October 7th until December 11th, a special exhibition celebrating 60 years of Sanrio will be held at the Kyoto City Kyoc...
Culture Botero: Magic in Full Form 2022 Kim Bergström A special exhibition taking place at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art will display around 70 of Fernando Botero's works, ...
Culture Ihei Kimura Exhibition 2021 Kim Bergström A special exhibiton taking place at the Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art looks at the works of Ihei Kimura (1901-1974), who w...
Culture Pipilotti Rist Exhibition 2021 Kim Bergström A special exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto will look at the work of Pipilotti Rist (1962-), a Swiss v...
Culture The Ceramic Sculpture of Shindo Tsuji 2020 Kim Bergström Shindo Tsuji (1910-1981) was a Japanese artist, particularly renowned for his sculpture works. While Tsuji had utilized mediu...
Culture Wandering around Fushimi Inari C. Rio At the entrance courtyard to Fushimi Inari, you are greeted with architecture similar to most other Japanese temples, but duc...
Food Takasegawa Teppan Doujou, Kyoto Peter Sidell On Kyoto's lively Kiyamachi-dori, Takasegawa Teppan Doujou is an unpretentious place to get tasty, inexpensive food and drinks
Culture Kyoto Enri-an Hermitage Tomoko Kamishima Although Kyoto's Arashiyama district is a famous sightseeing area today, it was rustic countryside 700 years ago. The literal...
