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Popular Shopping | Other Shopping Tips | All Tips (67) If you are short on time but want to buy nice Japanese handicrafts, this is the best place in Kyoto to do it. It is really a 5 floor handicraft mall. Each floor is a different vendor. You are given a card when you enter that can be validated by each vendor you buy from. Depending on how many stamps you have on the card you get a free gift when you leave. Some of the artisans work on their crafts right there.
Cloisnnne jewelry, pearls, fans, wood block prints, textile products.
A large variety of items in all price ranges are available. Leave a Comment Theme: Local CraftAddress: Marutamachi DoriPhone: 075/761-5080Directions: A few blocks North of Herian shrine Bus # 201, 204, or 206
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Glico is a local brand and is famous for its "Pocky". In Kyoto, you will find all types of Pocky and Glico manufactures 1 particular one for Kyoto. There are many different flavours sold too. These boxes of Pocky can serve as good local souvenirs to be brought home too.
Prices range from 95 Yen to 1050 Yen depending on which one you buy. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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After visiting many of Kyoto's temples and shrines, a great souvenir to bring back from each is their temple/shrine talisman. Each place have talisman for various reason - easy childbirth, good exam results, good health, etc. They are cute, colorful and practical, and also cheap.
A few hundred yens or couple of US$, depending on size of the talismans. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Usually sold at the temples, these good luck charms for different situations can be good souvenirs for your friends and relatives and even yourself. There are charms for studies, pregnancy, safe-driving, work life luck, etc.
400 Yen onwards depending on the size and design of the charm. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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This is a wonderful shop that sells all kinds of Japanese souvenir goods: chopsticks, face paper, dolls, handkerchiefs, pottery, stationary, wallets, etc. Besides the usual goods, they also sell some very beautiful Japanese handbags.
Open daily 10am-6pm. Leave a Comment Theme: Local CraftAddress: Along the Path of PhilosophyPhone: 075-771-5541Directions: From Ginkakuji Temple, walk along the Path of Philosophy towards Nanzenji Temple. It will be on your right hand side, a few minutes down.
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Things are cheap!! Everything you grab there is all 300yen!! Some are crappy but you can find really pretty accessories only for that price! Leave a Comment Theme: JewelryDirections: You can find these stores in Porta, Avanti, Opa 4jo Kawaramachi, and individual one on Kawaramachi street.
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These street is bordered with tons of little stores offering various type of goods. You will find specialized stored selling only local crafts and paintings as well as the usual souvenir shop selling everything written "Kyoto" on it.
I found a vast variety of silk paintings and traditional drawings insome stores very worth buying. The price are decent.
Less than in department stores Leave a Comment Theme: Local CraftAddress: Kiyomizuzaka streetDirections: In the Eastern Gion area
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All these department stores are very big and offer everything you could think of. If after a day of walking through the old town and temples, you want to relax a bit by shopping around, it's a good alternative...
Clothes, souvenirs, cosmetics Leave a Comment Theme: Department StoreDirections: Right off Hankyu Kawaramachi Station
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Nishiki Market is a narrow, shopping street, lined by more than one hundred shops. Some of these shops has been run by the same faimlies for centuries. Various kinds of fresh and processed foods are sold here, including many Kyoto specialties, such as pickles, Japanese sweets, dried food, sushi, and fresh seafood and vegetables Theme: Food and DrinkDirections: The Nishiki Market street runs parallel to Shijo Avenue, one block north of Shijo Avenue. It can be reached on foot in less than 5 minutes from Shijo Station on the Karasuma Subway Line and Karasuma or Kawaramachi Stations on the Hankyu Line.
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Tenjin-san Markets is held at Kitano Tenmangu-shrine on the 25th of Every Month. So, if you're in Kyoto over the 25th of any month, you should come to the markets and check out all the cool things to buy!
I just love Market Athmosphere. There are so many people, so many stalls with interesting foods and nick-nacks!
Michael and I especially enjoy trying out strange food-on-a-stick at the markets. Here, Michael tried bbq Octopus on a stick, and mochi (pounded rice) on a stick, and I tried frozen banana dipped in chocolate on a stick! It was so yummy. There were so many other types of food to try too.
Second-Hand Kimonos and Obis. Some are in good condition, you will have to dig through the piles of 2nd hand kimonos to find them.
Antiques- old Japanese money, war memorabilia, furniture, wood-block printings.
Pottery-antique and new pottery is sold here.
You could spend nothing, and just have a day of walking around and absorbing in all the new sights. Or, you could spend heaps of money on buying antiques. I usually just spend about $5-10 on trying out lots of new foods! Leave a Comment Theme: AntiquesAddress: Kitano Tenmangu-JiDirections: From Kyoto Station, catch bus number 50 (takes about 30 minutes)
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