Another lovely accommodation is Guest House Waraku-an located just minutes from Kyoto's Heian Shrine. Waraku-an takes over a 110-year-old traditional machiya complete with a Japanese garden and ...

Accommodations rarely get more atmospheric than this: a 100-plus-year-old Kyoto ... garden, lifted his beer glass in salute, “This is very Japanese!” Though larger and more elaborate machiya ...

Tatami mats, silk cushions, a Japanese garden…Starbucks’ new Kyoto coffeehouse ... a feeling of being inside a traditional Kyoto machiya wooden townhouse,” Takafumi Minaguchi, CEO of ...

The facility, more than 115-year-old renovated machiya (traditional Kyoto townhouse), accommodates only one guest per day. Please enjoy a comfortable, quiet, and private time in a "safe" space ...

Megumi Hata lives in a machiya in Kyoto that has been in her family for 13 generations. “This house is rare and very traditional and therefore our identity as Japanese has been nurtured in this ...

On the first floor, locally-made kimono silk scrolls adorn the walls, while a picturesque garden comes complete ... of being inside a traditional Kyoto machiya wooden townhouse,” Takafumi ...

Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a new boutique for fashion house Issey Miyake inside one of Kyoto's historic machiya houses. Fukasawa, who designed many of Muji's bestselling products ...

Familiarity with key features of these machiya ... house across the street catches fire.” The two tragic fires that engulfed the city in the eighteenth century taught the people of Kyoto ...