Yuzu, a Yuba Cuisine Restaurant in Gion, Kyoto
I picked a proper restaurant for lunch too. Getting a reservation wasn’t easy. Here’s the place A notice saying they’re fully booked with reservations today Soy milk La France I ordered a …
I picked a proper restaurant for lunch too. Getting a reservation wasn’t easy. Here’s the place A notice saying they’re fully booked with reservations today Soy milk La France I ordered a …
I got up in the morning and headed down for breakfast. Oh dear.. I meant to keep it light, but the food was so good I ended up going back for seconds.. Endo It’s a famous tempura restaurant, and in the…
After a good meal in Karasuma, I headed back early to the hotel in Gion. Here are the photos I took along the way. Mirinae Yang Gopchang I never expected to find a Busan-style beef tripe joint in Kyoto –…
Jumelles 29 is a French restaurant, and in Japanese the name is read “Jumelles nijukyu”. It has been on my Kyoto restaurant list for ages, and since it has kept a high ranking year after year I fig…
Inoda Coffee is a slightly upscale kind of cafe. It has branches all over the city, and there’s a queue at every one of them. This time I went to the one on the first floor of the Daimaru department stor…
Entry plug There’s one seat inside and you can take a photo, and that’s about it. Since you just look and you’re done, there’s really no need to queue up. The view from up top The det…
I’d heard there was a film set and theme park in Kyoto that doubles as the backdrop for period dramas, so I went to check it out this time. The place It’s a movie village in an area called Uzumasa…
Finding a good place to eat in Arashiyama isn’t easy, and plenty of them don’t take reservations, so after some agonising I settled on a soba restaurant. The walk there It’s Arashiyama, but …
The streets of Arashiyama Plenty of people about. Shops like these Tenryu-ji Temple I keep meaning to actually go inside one day, but I only ever wander back and forth out front. Rilakkuma Sabo Character-t…
Get off at Arashiyama Station and it’s about a ten-minute walk to the bridge that Arashiyama is known for. On the way A place like this I’d actually never been to the far side of the bridge, and …
After a good meal, we set off for our first destination, Arashiyama. A signboard explaining the garden at Kennin-ji The hotel is right in front of Kennin-ji, which is famous for its ceiling painting. I would …
I’d heard the breakfast buffet at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion was excellent, so I booked a table. First, a lap around the room. Looks promising. It opens at 7, but if you turn up right at opening the…