We are building the Kyoto Store, but it just isn't ready yet. Calculating shipping to the whole world is proving difficult.
We are building the Kyoto Store, but it just isn't ready yet. It is going to be worth the wait.
We are building the Kyoto Store, but it just isn't ready yet. We wish it were. Really, we do.

Kyoto Daimonji Viewing Party at Hirosawa Pond

Daimonji, or properly, Gozan-no-Okuribi is a very fascinating and unique ceremonial event that occurs every August 16 in Kyoto. Five mountain sides around the city, with six Chinese character and pictogram shaped bonfires are burned. This happens at the end of the Bon Festival and the fires are intended to ... read more

Kyoto Used Book Fair at Shimogamo Shrine – Summer

Even if you don't read Japanese, you still might want to buy some Japanese books on your visit to Japan. Graphically oriented books in Japan are very beautifully illustrated and the content is well communicated, visually. If you are interested in the arts, culture, travel, or just a window into ... read more

Kyoto’s Gojo-Zaka Kiyomizu-yaki Pottery Festival

This annual street market offers hundreds of pottery stores and stalls. Kyoto-style pottery is available at big discounts. Off the main street some pottery workshops are open their doors and you can meet and chat with the potters and see how Kyoto pottery is made. Kiyomizu Yaki is the famous pottery ... read more

Beautifully Frightening: Kyoto Aloha Shirt Marker Pagong’s Haunted House PR Coup

Why go to a haunted house in the summer? According to Japanese culture, there is a good reason. Recently a client from Walt Disney Imagineering was in town that is very interested in Japanese ghosts and haunted houses in general. He was in luck because there is a new haunted ... read more

Kyoto Kitayama Sugi ‘Meiboku’ Hand Carved Chopsticks

Yesterday I was back up in Kitayama, the North Mountains of Kyoto, working on my new 'lumberjack' project. My associate took me to meet an 8th generation 'lumberjack' that produces logs that sell for about $20,000! Kitayama is famous for these cedar wood logs that are used for the tokonoma ... read more

Alternative to Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market: Kyoto Wholesale Food Market

For most tourists that visit Japan, the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo is high on their list of places to go and experience. Tsukiji is indeed excellent but it is getting harder and harder experience as parts are now closed to the public. The 'undiscovered' Kyoto Central Wholesale Food Market is ... read more

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