The Mamemo – a tiny notebook with 200 pages – makes for a great Kyoto gift. 672, Honkawara-cho, 3-chome Shiokoji-dori Yamato Ooji Higashi-iru, Higashiyama-ku (075 744 6540, uragu.com).

Kyoto Prefecture is Japan’s cultural center, including the former capital of Kyoto with its plethora of temples and shrines and its large population of practitioners of traditional crafts.

This time we're visiting Kyoto Prefecture. It flourished as Japan's capital for a thousand years, evolving a unique culture, and shaping many delicate traditional industries. Kyoto is the ...

Kyoto Prefecture tallied a record high 75.18 million sightseers in the prefecture in 2023, driven particularly by a notable increase in foreign visitors owing to the yen's depreciation.