Best around Kyoto Spot List

Don quijote is one of the largest discount retailers in Japan, known for its focus on convenience, discount, and entertainment. Stores offer a vast selection of products, with around 40,000 to 60,000 items available, including food, everyday essentials, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name goods.

A general discount store based on the concept of ”convenience, discount, and amusement”. The store offers approximately 40,000 to 60,000 items, including food, daily necessities, clothing, home appliances, and brand-name products.

Nishiki Market is a place where you'll find not only foodstuffs, but also cooking utensils. This kitchen knife store has been in business for 450 years. Although focusing on kitchen knives, the store, which is highly acclaimed by top-class chefs both in Japan and abroad, sells pots, graters, and molds. You can even have them inscribe your name on a kitchen knife.

Within this store with its quaint, relaxing Kyoto atmosphere, are more than 1000 kinds of items for sale, including general goods made of chirimen (crepe), accessories, and unique vegetable-shaped items. They are reasonably priced; for example, you can pick up a pair of earrings from 540 JPY, a hairpin from 300 JPY, and a furoshiki (Japanese cloth wrapper) from 1,300 JPY -- perfect as souvenirs.

The thin, refined, white noodles feel good going down, and go well with the noodle soup base full of umami extracted from dried bonito and kelp. The store’s famous menu item is Kyohu Udonsuki (from 5,000 JPY), which contains abundant ingredients from the sea and mountains. Soba Gozen (from 1,500 JPY), which includes a side dish, a seasonal soba and a bowl of rice, is also popular.

This is a cheesecake specialty shop, providing over 30 kinds of special cheesecakes (from 594 JPY) that rotate from day to day. Besides cheesecake there's an abundant food menu, such as a quiche set and a coconut curry.