In Japan most of the restaurants have their own speciality, like sushi or yakitori and won’t serve anything else.
Sometimes in Kyoto I come across traditions I don’t fully understand. Like the wearing of these armors by children (boys) during the Yoroi Kizome Ceremony (coming of age festival).
In a machiya the zashiki (or guest room) is the room to receive your guests. The machiya where we live in has a very nice zashiki, which we use as the actual living, and hang out when we have guests.
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Staying in a kyo-machiya (an old traditional townhouse) is an unique way to experience Kyoto.
The last decade high-rise buildings have been scattered around Kyoto, while eating away whole blocks of machiya’s.
Last two weeks the Rakumachirakuya festival is being held throughout Kyoto. Activities ranging from a cooking class to an insight lecture into working with roof tiles are held in kyo-machiya’s to promote machiya culture.
Jujumaru is a hidden little gem in a small street east of Ogawa Street off of Imadegawa Street. It’s a café and plant shop in one, which mix together very well.
Anewal gallery hosts the himenos exhibition this week with music, photographs, wooden crafts work and objets trouves.
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