On our last day in Kyoto, we decided to try our luck with the restaurants in the immediate neighborhood of our Airbnb apartment. So we didn’t look up any restaurants, as with the Isshin, but instead just wandered around the…
Kyoto Foodie Tour: Isshin
A culinary highlight of our trip to Japan and a restaurant awarded with two Michelin stars, let me introduce the Isshin in Kyoto! It’s common for restaurants in Japan to specialize in one dish (ramen, sushi or yakitori) or in…
Kyoto Foodie Tour: Hassunba
Located in the popular Nabeya-cho area in Kyoto, close to Ponto-cho and the bustling Shijo-Kawaramachi intersection, you can find this little treasure just by taking one turn off the main popular streets. The Hassunba is a tiny dining bar, with seats…
Tea house at the river: Kinkese Chaya
For our trip to Japan in 2015 I roughly sketched out an itinerary with places that I wanted to visit, leaving enough room to deviate from it whenever we felt like it. So before visiting Himeji and its beautiful white…