London's West End tends to merit its reputation for being bustling and harassed, so you might well imagine my delight on discovering an airy, unpretentious restaurant like Machiya, serving authentic, ...
Kyoto is frequented by over 50 million visitors a year. One of the city’s charms is an elegant townscape of traditional townhouses standing in rows at uniform height. Familiarity with key features of ...
KYOTO (Reuters) - For generations, artisans and merchants in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto lived in thousands of traditional "machiya" townhouses that are steadily disappearing or falling into ...
KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hachise Co. Ltd., a Kyoto-based real estate company marketing traditional Kyo-Machiya townhouses, has launched a new project to build entirely new Kyo-Machiya employing ...
The view from the balcony of the Izumiya-cho Machiya in Kyoto on the Kamo River. Photo Credit: TW photo by Arnie Weissmann When I told friends I would be staying in machiyas (traditional Japanese ...