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Shoyeido Incense Co. Kyoto Main Store

4.5

27 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Karasuma-dori Nijo Agaru East side

A long-standing store with a long history as a leader of fragrance culture since its founding in 1705. They manufacture and sell all sorts of fragrances including incense for religious use, incense sticks for tatami rooms, informal incenses, incense for tea ceremonies, and incense pastilles. The shop interior feels like a room used for tea ceremonies and it's fun to search the shop for a scent that fits your lifestyle. Popular purchases for those looking for Kyoto souvenirs are their Hourin incenses, a traditional scent used in traditional Japanese restaurants and inns, and their popular XiangDo Series, a pure fragrance with scents of rose and lavender.

My friend and I absolutely had the most fascinating visit to the Karasuma Nijo store where Ryoko-San introduced us to the traditional way of making incense in their fragrance factory tour. Ryoko-San...
Hakuchikudo Main Shop

4.0

6 Reviews

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Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Yasuya Machiya Hexagon Tower Shirakabicho 448

Hakuchikudo in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward specializes in selling folding fans. It sells a wide range of fans, not only traditional Kyoto-style fans made according to traditional techniques, but also fashionable fans decorated with lace or rhinestones. In this low-key store, customers can draw their own patterns on a fan or play the traditional game of fan throwing.

ちょっとそこまで、「白竹堂京都本店」ヘ！白竹堂本店は京都中心部の麩屋町六角にあり落ち着いた雰囲気を伝えています。自身で好きな絵を描き扇子にできる絵付け体験や扇子への名入れサービスなどもあり品揃が豊富です。繊細で細やかな刺繍のと伝統色の京扇子は代表的なものと言えるでしょう。和小物セットも販売しています。
SOU SOU Tabi

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Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Nishinokoro-dori Shijo Kai Nakanomachi Nakano-cho Second east entrance 2nd floor 1F

A store located in the Shinkyogoku area directly operated by Sou Sou, a tabi and Japanese clothing brand based on the concept of creating a new Japanese culture. The shop sells work tabi, zori sandals, and tabi socks made with exclusive textiles. The brand also operates a variety of other stores in the area selling clothing and lifestyle goods.
Zohiko (Kyoto Teramachi location)

4.5

17 Reviews

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Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Teramachi-dori Nijo Railway Le Rue West Side Shinjuku Temple 719-1

A venerable Kyoto lacquerware shop established in 1661 located in Teramachi, Kyoto City. In order to explore new possibilities while continuing to respect over 350 years of history, the shop has recently begun actively collaborating with international companies and creators to produce products that meet the needs of today. The shop moved to its current location in 2014 and offers an extensive range of products such as everyday articles for the current season, gifts, and exquisite pieces which shine with the skills of the craftsmen who produced them. A five-minute walk from Exit 11 of Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station on the Tozai Line subway.

If you want to have a piece of real Japanese art go to Zohiko. World best class of lacquer. Just perfect and displayed with a lot of taste. Very friendly and professional staff!
Rakushikan

3.5

3 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Sanjoutakakura Kyoto Bunka Museum 1F

A small museum dedicated to paper located on the first floor of the Museum of Kyoto in Karasuma Oike, Kyoto City. The museum was established with the aim of presenting the wonders of paper, a product closely connecting with Japanese culture and ways of life. The museum sells a variety of unique paper goods created throughout Japan as well as original handmade washi paper products dyed according to methods dating to the Heian period. The museum also presents paper products according to the ways in which it is used such as stationary, envelopes, origami, and seals, as well as introducing how paper is connected to and enriches human life.

紙の専門店ですが、眺めていてもただ「綺麗だなぁ」と感じはするものの、ただそれだけ。ここでどんな目的でここで売っている紙(主に和紙だが)を買うのか？私には理解が出来ない。和紙で出来た製品も数多く売られている。値打ちが解る人には良い場所なのかも知れないが・・・造詣が浅い小生には・・・どこが良いんだか？さっぱり？
Yojiya Main Store

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Shinkyo Gokubanakoji, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto

This oil blotting paper shop is located a two minute walk from the Kayu-koji Shopping Arcade traveling from Kawaramachi Station's number nine exit. The long-standing shop was established in 1904. Originally specializing in the sale of tooth brushes, the shop adopted its current name from a nickname based on the slang for toothbrush used at the time and has been known by this name ever since. In addition to its signature oil blotting papers, the shop also carries matched mirror pairs for applying makeup, an original product; as well as small makeup bags and other products. Many of the shop's products bear its distinctive logo. The store offers original product sets filled with your choice of products, perfect for giving as gifts.
Maisendo Nishiki Market Store

4.5

3 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Nishikikoji-dori Gokomachi Nishi Iru

There’s just so much to see and sample in Nishiki Market. Everywhere you turn there’s something delicious. We had a tamago sandwich that was made in a shop that sold mainly eggs and the sandwiches...
Kazariya Ryo

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Oshikojidori Fuyacho Nishiiru Tachibanacho 621

A silverwork showroom for parent company Chikueido, a metal jewelry artisan with a history dating back to the mid-Edo Period. A shop and workshop operating out of a classic Kyoto townhouse which is over 100 years old. They manufacture and sell subdued silver products that can be used every day. The shop is lined with accessories including netsuke miniature sculptures with seasonal images, straps, necklaces and hair combs and you can even try copper engraving (reservation required). You can also order original products, of course from your own design but you can also bring in a vague idea and work on it with a craftsman to create your own one of a kind item.
Hayashi-Ryushodo

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Sanjodori Horikawa Higashi Iru Hashihigashizumecho 15

A fragrance specialty shop founded in 1834 at the end of the Edo period. They manufacture and sell a variety of incenses focusing on their raw ingredients individually. Offering a variety including Koboku (fragrant wood), incense pastille, incense sticks and Shoko (incense powder), and offering incense has allowed this long-standing shop to offer support to all customers including temples for every sect of Buddhism, those participating in traditional incense-smelling ceremonies, and those participating in tea ceremonies. You can enjoy their incense with all five senses, from the color and shape of the incense, to the billowing rising smoke, and the spreading scent. The shop faces Sanjo-dori Street and is a seven-minute walk from Nijo Castle. It's marked by a large wooden sign on the second floor of the building.
Ishiguro-Kouho

4.0

6 Reviews

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Sanjodori Yanaginobanba Nishi Iru

This is the only shop in Japan that specializes in Nihohibukuro scented sachets. It has designed and sold its versatile original Nihohibukuro since its founding in 1855. Naturally these sachets, patterned on seasonal flowers, zodiac signs, and animals, can be used as scents, but also as interior designs. You can choose from different fabrics like Yuzen printed silk, and Nishijin brocade, with four different scents, to create your own original Nihohibukuro.

小さい店舗の、におい袋専門店です。お店の中には様々の紋様の和生地での「袋」「貝」「鳥」「蟹？」等々が並んでいます。スタッフは和服の若い女性で丁寧に四種類の香を説明していただき、香りのテイスティングをして、「特製香」（甘い香りが混じっています）を10ケで7000円でした。一番安い「並香」なら約４００円/ケで購入できます。すき好きはありますが、お土産になります。
Japo-Rhythm Uta no Koji shop

5.0

1 Reviews

Style / Fashion

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Shinkyogoku Dori Sanjo Sagaru Sakuranocho 407-1

This apparel shop on the 2nd floor of the fashion building Uta no Koji, known affectionately as Utako by Kyoto's young people for over 30 years. This is the origin of the brand Japo-Rhythm, which creates traditional Japanese styling. They offer knickknacks with design motifs like Zen, scrolls, and dragons, as well as t-shirts, tote bags, and Kyoto-only goods. They can also write your name on a T-shirt in seal script, an increasingly popular service that is drawing customers from inside and outside Japan.

I visited Kyoto in 2017. It is a little shop in the Kyoto market, place in the 2nd plane of a little palace between the market banks. The owner is a really fine person and sell high quality things...
Kyogoku Iwai

4.5

4 Reviews

Style / Fashion

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Shinkyogoku Dori Shijo Agaru Nakanocho 556

This shop specializes in colorful Kyoto-style knickknacks made using elegant Nishijin silk brocade. The historic-feeling Kyoto townhouse is filled with craft products like incense, washi paper, fans, and aromatic sachets. The incense-scented shop is a pleasure just to browse through. The coin purses, hair scrunchies, and pouches made with gold-shot Nishijin brocade are a hit with overseas tourists. They also offer a wide variety of traditionally Japanese style small goods for men, as well.

木造の町屋風で昔ながらのお店に入ったかのような感覚になりました。各種手工芸品が販売されていますが、さすが品質の良さそうなものばかりでした。
Shinsengumi Clothing Rental Makotoya

Life / Living / Hospital

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Mibutsujimachi 45-7

This clothing rental shop is near Mibu-dera Temple where was included a former base of the Shinsengumi. They offer rentals of the trademark Shinsengumi pale-blue haori coats, black director's uniforms, and Ryoma Sakamoto kimonos with crest. All costumes are high quality and made in the Mibusato workshop. The realistic feeling of the heavy cloth sleeves and hems fluttering in the wind is quite a hit. There are a number of spots near the shop connected to the Shinsengumi, like Yagitei station, Koen-ji Temple, and the old Maekawa manor. A hit course is going for a stroll in your outfit after your photo session is over.
WTV Select Glasses Shin-kyogoku Nishiki Shop

Shopping

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Higashigawacho 535-1 Nishiki Tenjinmae

"This glasses shop, founded in 1917, is in front of Shinkyogoku's Nishiki-Tenmangu Shrine. Their motto is ""fun to wear glasses"" and they offer a huge variety of popular brands and domestic glasses. This shop prides itself on their speed. They can finish your glasses within nine minutes of receiving your order. They have designs ranging from Kyoto-esqeu to modern foreign brands, as well as traditional Sabae glasses from Fukui."
Nunoya Misayama

Style / Fashion

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Higashinotoin-dori Rokukaku Sagaru Misayamacho 281

"This specialty shops looks to share the heart of Japan: Japan's quality, Japan's soul, and Japan's traditions. For 300 years, it has followed a path of tradition, inheritance, and innovation to distribute the special soul of Japan with the world from the heart of Kyoto. ""Kense"" the shopfront is lined with traditional and new goods, while ""Oku-no-ma"" the back offers apparel and accessories. with This atmosphere of refine taste is more than a ""shop of Japanese-style knickknacks"". In ""Okudosan"", they sell glass items and porcelain, in the ""Toriniwa"" they sell aromatic goods to soothe the soul, and in the ""Kura"" they have baby goods that make the perfect gifts and souvenirs."
Kyo-Uchiwa Aiba

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Yanaginobanbadori Rokukaku Sagaru Izutsuyacho 422

This paper fan specialist was founded in 1689. They have long made Kyo Uchiwa, with patterns of paintings and silver and gold dusting, based on traditional imperial fans. They have their own workshop where they make sukashiuchiwa fans, made with 90 to 120 finely made ribs, that are replete with traditional elegance and are perfect Japanese accessories and western-style decorations. These sukashiuchiwa, said to cool you down on sight, were apparently first made here. Since ancient times, the fan of a good luck charm that have been said to dispel demons in the wind is also ideal for gifts. We recommend these intricate fans are as good a gift as flowers.
Suzuki Shofudo

Style / Fashion

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Yanaginobanba Rokukaku Sagaru Izutsuyacho 409410

This is a paper decoration specialist that uses Kyo-yuzen dyeing techniques on high quality Japanese Kouzo washi paper to create stencil dyed paper. This shop has enjoyed great success ever since kimono packaging changed from wooden boxes to paper in 1893, and has never changed its dealing in washi paper. It now deals in paper containers used for things like graduation certificate holders, snack packaging, V-cut containers used to replace jubako dinner boxes, and gentle, rounded pressed containers. Their stock is versatile, ranging from pasta boxes to stationery and knickknacks, and are perfect Kyoto souvenirs and gifts.
SOU SOU Hotei

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A bag specialty shop located in the Shinkyogoku area directly operated by Sou Sou, a brand based around the concept of creating a new Japanese culture. The shop sells pop design bags, cloth wrappers, and handbags created to go well with Sou Sou-style Japanese clothing. A variety of other clothing and tabi speciality shops operated by the brand can be found in the area.
SOU SOU Ise Cotton

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Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Niigyo Denpaso Shijo Kamijo Kaeru Kaeri Second Eye Higashi II Entrance P-91 Building 1F

An Ise cotton specialty store located in the Shinkyogoku area directly operated by Sou Sou, a brand based on the concept of creating a new Japanese culture. Ise cotton is a traditional craft produced for over 250 years since the Edo period. This store sells Ise cotton products in cooperation with the Usui Shokufu company, the only producer of Ise cotton today. Through a fusion of Sou Sou’s unique designs and traditional techniques, this store provides new opportunities for Ise cotton to become a part of modern life.
Tsubaki labo-KYOTO

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Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo-ku Sanjyotori Karasuma Nishi In Le Morikura Town 79 Sachibaki Building 1F

This is a select shop with both gallery and retail space on the first floor of the Fumitsubaki Building, a grownup-oriented commercial facility in a renovated Taisho period Western-style wooden building along Kyoto’s Sanjo-dori Street. The goods on offer are traditional Kyoto items arranged in a modern, straightforward style and lined up inside the bright white-walled interior. With a strong preference for “made in Kyoto,” popular standard items include living and fashion goods using koha* original fabric patterned with Japanese vegetation through a Western sense of beauty.

Kyoto City Center

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Kyoto Areas

Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.