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Around Kiyomizu-Dera Temple

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% Arabica Kyoto Higashiyama

4.5

456 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Hoshinochou 87-5

A coffee shop in Higashiyama. The first location in Japan for this chain which has shops in Hong Kong, Dubai, and Kuwait. Here patrons can enjoy coffee made with high quality equipment using beans from company farms in locations like Hawaii. One of the shop’s baristas is a former world latte art champion!

Very tiny and rather crowded Cafeon even mis weekday. The coffee was really great and so was the sparkling lemonade!
Kiyomizu Junsei Okabeya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu Temple Mae Shimizu 2

This Kaiseki restaurant which uses tofu as a main ingredient in their cuisine is located near Kiyomizu Temple. The refurbished traditional townhouse restaurant can be found a little off the road approaching Kiyomizu Temple. There is a tofu factory on the premises, and freshly made tofu and yuba are included in the menu. The main dish on the course menu is boiled tofu, but there are a la carte dishes such as tofu-don (rice bowl topped with tofu) and nama-fu tempura (wheat-gluten tempura baked and coated with miso) as well. In addition, occasionally there are limited menus related to festivals, so many customers visit according to the season.
MO-AN

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 2-246

The Japanese confectionery store is located in front of the Kiyomizudera Temple Monzen in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City. This store sells the KiyomizuOfukuhan and Hyakufukuarare crackers made with discriminatingly selected ingredients. There is a cafe in the store where one can enjoy warabimochi cakes or a lunch meal, but the lunchis limited to the first 20 customers only. Many visitors take a break here and buy some souvenirs.
Yudofu Okutan Kiyomizu

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 3-340

A venerable Buddhist vegetarian cuisine restaurant located in the Kiyomizu neighborhood of Higashiyama Ward founded in 1635 in the early Edo period. The tofu used in the restaurant’s famed boiled tofu is made with organic soybeans and natural brine extracted in a special room below ground. The tofu is made fresh each morning in a workshop situated under the 2000 square meter garden visible from the dining areas.
Hanbey-fu

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku, wholesale town Gojo Gojo Leisure town 433

A long-established shop selling ‘fu,’ a bread-like food made of wheat gluten, from the Edo period. The shop opened in 1689, and introduced the secret method of how to make “fu” which had until then been treated as a high-class food in the palace. The shop is a traditional wooden building, but the sales area inside is a modern Kyoto-style decorated with stained glass, making you aware of the changes over time. In the tea shop “Hanbei,” there is a course menu of ‘fu’ and ‘yuba’ (tofu skin), and you are able to dine here as well.
Ichikawa Ya Coffee

4.5

45 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Shibutani Dori Higashi-oro Nishiiru Kaneicho 396-2

Amazing place amazing breakfast! Fruit sandwich a must try! The coffee is artisan and the house blend is extraordinary! Need to queue up but definitely worth it!
Baikoudo

4.5

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Imagumanohouzouchou 6

The store serves pancakes, soft-serve ice cream, Japanese-style parfaits, etc. The Ogura cream pancakes, available only from fall through the end of April, are very popular and often draw long lines of customers when they are served.

最初に訪れたのは30年位前です。当時から近所にお住まいの様子の中高年男性が、ひとりでホットケーキを食べに来ているのを見掛けます。最初は抹茶パフェを食べたい時に訪れていましたが、その姿を見てホットケーキにも興味を持つようになりました。京都の店ですが、観光客向けでなく、近所の人が自転車で馴染みの店に行くという感じの店です。携帯電話が無い時代に美味しい店情報を豊富に持っていたタクシーの運転手さんが、修学...
Soba Saryo Sawasho

4.5

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Imagumanotsuruginomiyachou 33-22

Soba Saryo Sawasho is a restaurant in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward that offers kaiseiki cuisine centered on soba noodles. The cooking and serving dishes are Kiyomizu-yaki pottery, made locally in the Sennyuji area, or antiques, and you can taste the effects for yourself. The menu changes weekly, and the cooks use buckwheat flour grown in Hokkaido and locally grown fresh vegetables. They take great care with the visual appeal of the meal, and an attractive soba kaiseki meal is one of their specialties. At noon, customers can order a la carte dishes with stone ground, handmade soba.

Upscale restaurant featuring Soba (buckwheat). Food is presented in fine Japanese porcelain plates and bowls. Children under 10 are not allowed.
Seikoro

4.5

222 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto prefecture Kyoto shi Higashiyama kuya tower Tooru Gojo down Le 3 - chome Nishitibachi cho 467

A venerable traditional inn founded in 1831 and located in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. The inn’s interior is Edo period in style with a hint of Taisho Roman. The inn offers a wide selection of rooms, from shoin-zukuri style rooms built a hundred years ago to Western style rooms offering excellent rooms to even rooms which allow guests to stay with their pets. Depending on room occupancy, reservations for dinner only are accepted. The inn’s Kyoto style kaiseki course cuisine is truly the taste of tradition. Carefully made with fresh ingredients, showiness and tricks are kept to a minimum, with flavor taking precedence over all. The inn’s spacious man-made hot spring bath is also popular.

We stayed here for the second time when revisiting Japan the place is beautiful and we recalled exactly why we chose to stay again when they opened the door of our beautiful Japanese garden view...
Hyatt Regency Kyoto Trattoria Sette

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku

This Italian restaurant is inside the Hyatt Regency Kyoto. They offer authentic, simple Italian dishes that showcase the natural flavors of their ingredients, including pizza fresh baked in their own Napoli-style woodfired oven, and the chef's special pasta. They also have a full dessert and wine menu, and not only offer lunch and dinner, but a tea-time service as well. They attached pastry boutique has fresh-baked bread, cakes made with seasonal fruits, and more for takeout as well.
Kiyomizu Gojozaka Yubasen

4.5

30 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Gojohashihigashi 6-583-113

This yuba tofu skin restaurant is on the pilgrimage route from Gojozaka to Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Yuba first began as part of the Buddhist cuisine acceptable for priests to eat. It offers fresh-made yuba, full of the mildly sweet aroma of soybeans. Their most popular meal is the Kyo-yuba zen, a set with their yuba trio platter, yuba sashimi, and agedashi fried yuba in broth. They also have rice, akadashi miso soup, and desserts on their full menu of yuba cuisine. They also sell fried kumiage-yuba (soft unshaped yuba) or sweet stewed yuba to take home, all made in the workshop on the second floor.

Not due the food or service but simply as it was closed and Trip Advisor did not mention that. We walked some way to the restaurant purely based on the rating and reviews at 8pm Monday 27th May and...
Kyoto Cuisine Doraku

4.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Front Dori Honmachi Nishiiru Shomencho 304

This restaurant in the temple-rich area of Higashiyama, where you will find Kiyomizu-dera, Rokuharamitsu-ji, and Rengeoin Sanjusangendo, has been using its noren curtain since its founding 370 years ago. Legend says this shop found its beginning in the Kan-ei years of the Edo period, when a tea shop was opened in the former home of tactician Ishida Mitsunari. Their flagship Chikuyaki is made by cooking fish and vegetables inside green bamboo. The seasonal seafood and land dishes are redolent with the aroma of bamboo for a dish that tantalizes all five senses. You can enjoy your meal in the atmosphere of a building designated an important historical design by the city of Kyoto.

Have walkin to this restaurant around 17:00 Japan time, there are many customers eating their famous crab dinner. I have ordered their sabbu sabbu crab set, very yummy although quite expensive for...
Kyo-ryori Hanakagami

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Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 4-161-6 Kiyomizu Building 1F

"This Japanese restaurant located along Gojozaka serves authentic Kyo-ryori (Kyoto cuisine). Following their motto ""always cook with a spirit of wishing to serve customers something delicious,"" the restaurant continues to create that truly satisfies their customers. Despite being located in the middle of the Gojozaka district, which is best known for its refined and elegant Kiyomizu ware, the restaurant does not have an overly formal atmosphere. Instead, it has a notably approachable vibe that makes it popular with students, families, and people casually dining alone. Their kaiseki cuisine, which capitalizes on seasonal ingredients, is becoming increasingly popular for featuring many tastes of Kyoto such as obanzai (a simple traditional cuisine of Kyoto), namayuba (tofu skin) sashimi, yosedofu (silken tofu curds), and goma-dofu (sesame tofu). Reservations made at least a day in advance are required."
Yumeji Cafe Goryukaku

4.0

31 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku

This cafe is inside a building combining Japanese and Western design to blend perfectly into the surroundings. The building, built in 1923, was once the manor of Meiji era entrepreneur Shofu Kajo, stands out for its tiled roof and ornamental shibi. The building interior is filled with the warmth of wood, and is the perfect atmosphere to enjoy their home made tofu dishes and sweets. Their popular Kyoto vegetable curry is filled with produce from the thousand-year old capital city itself flavored with an elegant mix of spices. Their dessert menu is full, and includes dishes like Kuromitsu Tofu, made with unpressed tofu and select black syrup and kinako soy flour. The western-style structure is filled with Taisho romance, and is a nationally registered Cultural Asset.

Happened across this excellent historic restaurant by accident just walking off the crowded lane and eyeing the old stone architecture. Inside over 100 years old and not much changed. Had good lunch...
Umezono Kiyomizu Store

4.5

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu Dynasty Saka 339-1

A café and sweet shop located on Sanneizaka, the approach leading to the Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The shop offers an abundant variety of shaved ice flavors, zenzai sweet bean soup, warabi mochi bracken starch dumplings, anmitsu syrup-covered sweet beans, and other tasty treats. The shop’s famed dango sweet dumplings are made according to the same method first used when the shop was founded in 1927. Characterized by their grill marks and salty-sweet sauce, they are also available for takeout.

This is the right address for connoisseurs of traditional Japanese quality desserts. Good tea time joys can be found all over Kyoto but if youd like to sample a variety of mochi, dango & Anko and...
Otanien Tea Store

4.0

7 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Imagumanonaginomorichou 7

An Uji tea specialty shop a 10 minute walk from Tofukuji Station located along the road leading to the Chishakuin Temple and the Sanjusangen do. In addition to Uji tea, the shop also sells nama chocolate and other sweets made with matcha green tea which are frequently featured in various media. Parfaits and soft serve ice cream made with Uji tea are served in the café corner and classes conducted by Japanese tea instructors are also held in the shop.

大谷園茶舗は、今熊野神社の近くにあり色んなお茶を売られてます。グリーンティーや抹茶パフェとかありますが、抹茶ソフトがコスパ最高でした。
Malebranche Kiyomizuzaka Branch

4.5

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Kiyomizu 2-256

This is the Kiyomizu-zaka location of the Malebranche chain of confectionary shops, which has its flagship shop near Kitayama Station. Kiyomizu-zaka Street is the approach to Kiyomizu-dera Temple. The shop offers a variety of exclusives not available anywhere else including Malebranche’s Cha no Ka with limited-edition packaging. These high quality matcha-flavored langue de chat cookies are made with Uji tea, a classic Kyoto souvenir.

Went May 2019 I saw from various articles that MALEBRANCHE “cookies” are pretty famous in Japan. They are two green tea cookies with tiny layer of white chocolate in between. We were supposed to go...
Shimizu Ippoen Kyoto Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Honkawarachou 665

A direct sales shop and café operated the Shimizu Ippoen Japanese tea specialty shop located at the intersection of Higashi Oji-dori Avenue and Shiokoji Street close to the Sanjusangen do. The shop offers a variety of Japanese-Western fusion sweets designed to go perfectly with the shop’s 17 tea varieties, from standard baked sweets and green tea to a hoji roasted green tea tiramisu matched with an oolong tea roasted by the actual grower. The relaxed Japanese modern atmosphere of the shop also makes it a great place to take a break in between sightseeing.
Bunnosuke Chaya Main Store

4.0

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi Higashiyama ku, Shimogawara Munakata 373 Yagakamigamachi

Bunnosuke Chaya head store is an old teahouse established by Meiji-period second generation rakugo story teller Katsura Bunnosuke, and its symbol is the five-storied pagoda of Houkanji Temple. Even today they offer tea and sweets to visitors going from Yasaka Shrine to the Higashiyama area around Kiyomizu-dera Temple. Popular all the way from the time of establishment are the warabimochi (bracken starch dumpling) and sweet sake. True to the founder’s words “sophisticated customers improve a boring restaurant” and ‘there is countryside in Kyoto,’ these items carry a deep feeling of style and nostalgia.

Tasted the amazing honey and ginger Amazake drink with soft broken rice in it - would be sensational if you had a sore throat - real comfort food.
cafe Amazon

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Higashiyama Ward Shimomachi-dori Shichinmachi-cho Uplifting 235

A venerable café with an old-fashioned brick exterior located a two-minute walk from Shichijo Station. Famed for its stuffed toasted sandwiches, the café is visited by large numbers of locals and tourists alike. One of the shop’s most popular menu items is its “mixed toast,” a sandwich of fluffy eggs and vegetables. The “wafu toast” is another popular menu choice uniquely Kyoto-esque in style and contains a thick dashi-maki omelet, nori, and bonito. Here patrons can enjoy an elegant morning with a cup of siphon-drip coffee.

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Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.