On my last day in Kyoto, I spent time at Nishiki Market in the morning for some grocery shopping and to replenish my kitchen cabinet. The ...

Thank God Jiki Miyazawa wasn’t that far away from the metro station when I had to brave the rain to walk to the restaurant for my dinner o...

Thankfully I didn’t make much plan for my short trip to Kyoto, ‘cause otherwise any plan would have been severely disrupted by the heavy r...

One of my regrets for the trip being too short was not able to spend more time checking out the buzzing café scene in Kyoto this time. Non...

One of the main reasons of renting a house rather than staying in a hotel was to have the opportunity to spend more time eating in rather ...

Mid-February is way too early for the annual cherry blossom festivities but we arrived at Kyoto right on time for the prime plum blossom...

We dropped by D&Department Kyoto on Saturday afternoon to do some shopping and have lunch there. D&Department Project is an fascin...

We were "forewarned" that the house we rented did not come with a bath tub but only a shower room. It's not a problem for u...

I made only one restaurant reservation this time in Kyoto - partly because the trip was rather short and partly because by the time we sta...

We tried our luck in getting a couple of seats at the counter of Tempura Yoshikawa for lunch without a booking and glad we were seated rig...

We didn't confirm our Kyoto vacation until 2 weeks before the departure date so we were a bit tight in putting all the travel arrangem...

I knew the only chance I could get a table at Mishima-tei, the Kyoto restaurant specialized in beef dishes, without a reservation was to ...

Four years ago we stumbled across an interesting antique shop in Kyoto by chance. The storefront looked unassuming from outside, with a f...

The neighborhood of Fushimi (伏見), about 15 minutes away by local train from Kyoto, was known as one of the oldest sake-brewing region in...

For us, part of the fun when traveling was to check out the local markets and explore the different ingredients available in different cou...

With no fixed itinerary or specific places to go while we were in Kyoto, we found ourselves just stumbling across interesting places to ea...

We concluded our brief stay in Kyoto with lunch at a kaiseki restaurant called Gion Maruyama (祇園丸山), which came highly recommended by a ...

We were caught into a bit of an awkward situation with the heavy rain pouring down as we got out of the taxi just outside Tempura ...

Sitting on Noryo-yuka (納涼床) - the open-air riverside platform - is an unique way of dining in Kyoto available only in the summer season....

With our flight schedule to touch down only in early morning at Osaka airport, we didn't make any specific plan for lunch in Kyoto on ...