I never thought I'd want to live in an old Japanese house. I've always heard they're creaky and cold. However, I was ...

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.

Now, even coffee giant Starbucks is getting in on the game, with the June 30 opening of a new Kyoto shop inside a machiya in Higashiyama, one of the city's best-preserved districts, near the ...

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 ...

Set inside a restored 100-year-old townhouse, this boutique accommodation has just three suites. ... The machiya was built in the Taisho era (1912-1926) and still retains its quaint and retro feel.

Le Labo’s new Kyoto flagship store and cafe was designed by architect Jo Nagasaka to adapt a 145-year-old traditional townhouse, called a “machiya” in Japanese. Nagasaka, the principal of ...

Le Labo Kyoto Machiya draws upon the principles of wabi-sabi. Nestled in the Shimokorikicho, Nakagyo-ku neighbourhood, and housed in a traditional Japanese wooden townhouse (or machiya) dating back to ...

Inside the Le Labo Kyoto Machiya experience. Once through the traditional noren curtains that grace the storefront, visitors can experience perfectly preserved sections of the original machiya.Le ...

Traditional wooden townhouses called machiya could once be found throughout Japan and were especially common in cities such as Kyoto and Nara in Kansai, as well as Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.

For example, it is customary for Kyo-machiya to set the height of the doors to 1,730 mm, which is 20% smaller than what we normally design. Similarly, the rooms are only three tatami mats in size ...