Best Shopping by Place

Most of Kyoto looks like an average Japanese city, filled with modern, concrete buildings tied together by jumbles of telephone wires. So it wasn’t exactly a shock when we stepped …

Kiyomizu temple, the Eiffel tower of Kyoto If you’re like most travelers, you’ve probably seen a dramatic photo like this one of Kyoto’s Kiyomizu temple, perched in the trees like …

Kiyomizu is a great area to shop for traditional Kyoto artisan goods— you may have read about the great textile pouches we found in our last post here.  But there …