Kyoto

291 places10 neighborhoods

Kyoto has 10 neighbourhoods and 291 places. Gion is the old teahouse quarter and the place for a dinner in a wooden townhouse, Kawaramachi is the busy downtown for lunch and coffee, and Higashiyama is the temple walk with somewhere good to stop along it. Gion has the most on 61, then Kawaramachi on 38 and Higashiyama on 35.

Start here

Busiest neighborhoods first.

Gion

Gion is where Kyoto goes for dinner, and it holds more restaurants in the data than any other area.

Kawaramachi

Kawaramachi is the grid of shopping streets around Shijo, and the eating here is fast and cheap.

Higashiyama

Kiyomizu-dera sits on the hillside and the lanes below it, Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka, are lined with sweet shops.

Where you drink

Karasuma

ramen alleys, a design hotel and a long-running coffee house

Takatsuji

ramen, tea cocktails and kaiseki a few streets south of Shijo

Days out

Arashiyama

a bamboo grove, riverside sweets and character cafes

Okazaki

the big shrines, Nanzen-ji and the museums in between

Everything else

Nishiki

a covered food market, knife makers and udon next door

Kyoto Station

ramen, conveyor sushi and a department store you can eat in

Pontocho

yakiniku and sukiyaki along a narrow lane by the river

A neighborhood shows up here once we hold enough places in one category to make a guide out of it. Kyoto has 10 of them today.