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Efish
Restaurants & Cafés

This cosy riverside cafe was once the home of local designer Shin Nishibori, whose creations ...

Weissraum Gallery
Museums & Sights

The name ‘white room’ suggests an archetypical modern art gallery: an open, symmetrical cube. ...

Lisn
Shops

Shoyeido is a 300-year-old incense giant that creates the traditional aromas you’ll smell in ...

Major attractions

Toei Uzumasa Eigamura
Art & Leisure

It’s Universal Studios with samurai but without the rides in this movie-set theme park from ...

Heian Jingu
Museums & Sights

To mark its 1,100th birthday, Kyoto built itself an enormous shrine, complete with a 24m-high ...

Kinkaku-ji
Museums & Sights

Kyoto’s most iconic structure is a three-storey pavilion that literally dazzles visitors when ...

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