Kyoto Postcards

Now here is one that really annoys my Chinese friends in Japan. The 'gyoza shaped nikuman', from 7-11. It is...

Kyoto is a city of surprises. It was during a bicycle ride down my usual route home in late spring...

Mention netsuke to a Japanese and it will most likely draw a blank. An under-appreciated art form, netsuke originated in...

The sakura season has just about arrived in Japan. At this time, Kyoto is heaving with tourists who have come...

Kyoto photographer Kosuke Okuda and I teamed up to do an article for the Russian travel magazine Afisha Mir (Афиша-Мир)....

I like fried rice, but I don’t make it very often. I guess because I never got good at making...

I found this guy perched on one roof whilst wandering around my neighbourhood of Nishijin. He is a Shoki-san: a...

I just went to the Higashiyama Hanatoro. There was the highly-anticipated projection mapping of Chion-in Temple , a National Treasure...

The other day I went to Arashiyama, a major tourist spot in western Kyoto. Famous for its bamboo groves, you...

I have wanted to make Japanese-style curry from scratch for a long time and last night I finally did. It...