Kyoto Postcards

Kyoto's Eikun sake brewery makes perhaps my favorite Kyoto sake. (Generally, I am not a fan of Kyoto sake.) I...

Hachibei is a Japanese wagyu beef restaurant in Kyoto that I introduced in a Travel and Leisure article in 2010....

I have been a fan of this brand since I first encountered their iPhone stencil, which was maybe their first...

I am doing a little collaboration with a woodcraft artisan based in Miyama, the mountains of rural Kyoto. We are...

There are nutria (coypu) in Kyoto - they have invaded here too. I see a few in the Kamo River...

It should be raining a lot in Kyoto now as this time of year is the rainy season. However, this...

I pruned a camellia bush in the garden and found myself with a heap of beautiful waxy green camellia leaves....

Today I went to Tango, the region on the Japan Sea side of Kyoto prefecture. There is some great sightseeing...

I was wandering home late last night and stopped in at one of my favorite little shrines in Kyoto. This...

This morning, while I was biking home, I passed through the 'Tadasu-no-Mori' Forest, on the grounds of UNESCO World Heritage...