Prologue

Chapter 1) Why We Love Kyoto

A town with coffee, onigiri, and cats | Philosopher's Walk
Ao Onigiri, Saishoku Kosagisha, Swimpond Coffee, Moan
What You Have and I Don't | Kiyomizu-dera
Kawai Kanjiro Memorial Hall, Ichikawayakohi, Kagizen Yoshifusa Kodaiji Branch, Gion Ohagi Otafuku
A Model Answer for a Weekend Afternoon | Heian Shrine and Okazaki
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Grill Godakara, Nishitomiya, Kentaro Takoto
Happiness, so easy and simple | Jingu Marutamachi Station
Coffee Base Nashinoki, Kamogawa Cafe, Bonne Volonte, Uchu Wagashi Teramachiten

Chapter 2) Sufficiently Kyoto-like

Ideal Adult | Temperature
Salon de Muge, Zen Cafe, Shinzaburo Ichizawa Hanfu, Izuju
Sometimes the Wrong Choice | Sanjo
Naito Shoten, Kyukyodo & Letter Viking, Musubi Kyoto, Ishiusoba Watatsune
A Day in a Small Kitchen | Kawaramachi
Horaido Chaho, Listen Kyoto, Kawabata Takisaburo Shoten, Mumokuteki Goods & Wears Kyoto + Cafe
A Fuwafuwa Tour for You | Kyoto City Hall
Torinoki Coffee, Hitsuji, Neuf Creperie, Granpier Chojiya, Tsujiwa Kanaami, Daikichi

Chapter 3) Time difference between yesterday and today

Not much, but helpful | Nijojo · Karasumaoike Station
Clamp Coffee Sarasa, Nijokoya, Flip Up!, Shinrin Shokudo, Utsuwaya Saisai
Table for One | Kyoto Gyoen
Yugen, Yamada Matsutou Kobokuten, Kurani Chiyo Shoten, Kameya Hironaga, Kyoto Curry Factory Caril
Adult Spring Picnic | Kitano Tenmangu Shrine and Randen Train
Taisho Seifangjo, Le Petit Mecque Imadegawa, Fruit & Parlor Cricket, Kitchen Papa, Yoshinobu Tsuruya

Chapter 4) Kyoto's Landmarks

A Sweet Promise | Kamogawa
Kitsa Agaru, Sva, Aroueneno, Mina Perhonen
And summer again | Gojo
D&Department Kyoto, The Terminal Kyoto, Maruki Seifangzo, Menya Inoichi Hanare
Between Coffee and Co-Hee | Kyoto Station
Kaikado Cafe, Tsukeyasai Isoism, Yamamoto Manbo

Chapter 5) A little further today

Sunday Trip | Demachiyanagi Station · Kamogawa Delta
Tsunagu Shokudo, Factory Cafe Kosen, Artisanal, Demachi Futaba, Sabo Isehan
Driven by a Little Curiosity | Ichijoji and Eizan Electric Railway
Tsubame, Pan no Chihare, Ichijoji Nakatani, Montique, Tsukemen Enaku
Western-style restaurant and a bunch of green onions | Kitaoji
Wife and Husband, Saryo Hosen, Shuki Koyoido, Grill Hasegawa
Running with the Wind | Nishijin · Shichiku
Kamisoe, Umezonosabo, Ogawa, and Circus Coffee

Chapter 6) A city that deepens the more you walk

Green Solace | Forest Walk
Tadasu-no-Mori, Kyoto Gyoen National Garden, Kyoto Prefectural Botanical Garden, Shoren-in Temple
A Carefree Walk | Waterway Promenade
Kikuhama Village, Takasegawa River Former Canal, Gion Shirakawa River, Willow-lined Road, Philosopher's Path, Shirakawa River
Kyoto Through the Eyes | Bookstore Tour
Keibunsha Ichijojiten, Seikosha, Hohohoza, Mayarukakoshoten
Night Temperature | Sento Pilgrimage
Tamanoyu, Sauna no Umeyu, Hinodeyu, Funaoka Onsen

Chapter 7) How to savor Kyoto

Welcome to Kyoto's Morning | Breakfast
Inoda Coffee Main Store, Coffee House Maki, Rojiusagi, Tomikoji Kayuten
Practice your rest | Cafes in Kawaramachi
Smart Coffee, Ogawa Coffee, Sakaimachi Nishikiten, Weekender's Coffee, Domino Koji, and Stumptown Coffee Roasters
A Fluffy Bite of Happiness | Tamago Sando
La Madrague, Momoharu, Yamamoto Kitsa, Cafe Amazon
A Bridge Between Travel and Everyday Life | Souvenirs
Kakao 365, Salon de Royal Kyoto, Haku, Tosho-an, Uchu Wagashi, Nakamura Seiansho, Rokujyu-an Shimizu, Mangetsu

The inner landscape of Kyoto, encapsulated in the photos and text, becomes more vivid the more you read.
A book that is Kyoto-like and resembling Kyoto

Many people have been to Kyoto.
However, there are many confessions that all they did while in Osaka was stop by and take pictures of Kiyomizu-dera and Ginkaku-ji.
There are some people who say they don't know what they saw because they were swept away by the waves of people.
Reading this book will make you reflect on the pace and methods of your Kyoto travels.
Have we been speeding around Kyoto for a while now?
To truly experience Kyoto, slow down your travels.
By walking through the alleyways of Kyoto and savoring its charm, you will experience a completely different Kyoto than you ever knew before.
Kyoto learns that Kyoto alone is enough.
I have a burning desire to travel to Kyoto and stay there for a long time.
Because we come to truly realize why we cannot help but love Kyoto.


Places filled with taste
A guide to enjoying your emotions to your liking

It takes a lot of experiences to know your own taste.
You can discover your taste only by seeing and enjoying even the smallest things.
In "Kyoto Alleyway Tour," we learn that the old city of Kyoto is a great travel destination where you can experience and learn about different tastes.
To develop your own taste, you need a guide, and this book serves as a guide to emotional tastes.
Faithfully, yet without fuss.


Get a pencil that 'adds a sense of affection' from Kyukyodo, a stationery store founded in 1663.
Buy curry bread and cream bread from Taisho Seipangjo, which has been baking bread since 1919, and go on a spring picnic on the Randen train.
I bought a palm tree brush from Naito Shoten, which has been in business since 1818, and used it for a long time every time I washed vegetables like carrots and potatoes.
Every time I think about it, I think about Kyoto for a long time.
A simple lunch box made with furoshiki cloth from 'Musubi Kyoto'.
Sitting on a wooden chair in a nearby park, enjoying the sunshine and eating a packed lunch, I suddenly feel like giving a furoshiki with a seasonal pattern to a friend.
All of this is the discovery of taste that “Kyoto Alley Travel” tells us.


When we awaken our taste buds with kakifurai, deep-fried oysters with a crispy texture, when we indulge in the savory aroma of grains at Horai-do Chaho, the first teahouse to introduce genmaicha (brown rice green tea) in 1803, when we smell the rich Kyoto scent at incense brand Listen Kyoto, when we stop by the fluffy Hitsuji donuts and the old-fashioned crockery shop Hasegawa, we can reassure ourselves that Kyoto is not far away.
As Tokyo stroller Nagai Kafu said, in Kyoto, the mere fact that you can sit on a park bench and “indulge in useless sentimentality” is simply a joy.


At Utsuwaya Saisai, you can purchase rustic tableware with a distinctive earthen texture, and at Yamada Matsu Kobokuten, a historic kyo-dō (temporary tea house) that opened in 1772, you can sample the delicate blends and fragrances of safe ingredients.
After wandering aimlessly through the streets of Kyoto at night, it would be nice to go up to the tatami room on the second floor of Kitsa Agaru, order a cup of coffee, and look out the window.
On the way home, I must stop by the Keibunsha bookstore to pick up a bookmark.
If life were a book, I could always open it and say, "I was in Kyoto around this page."
If on a lazy Saturday afternoon you find yourself thinking about the ginkgo tree at D&Department and the fruit sando at Kitsaten, you know it's time to take another trip to Kyoto.
It was time to walk along the Kamogawa River, as 'the things I wanted to say came to mind like overdue homework, making me anxious'.
Your taste in Kyoto deepens little by little.
It's full of Kyoto-like Kyoto flavor.