Studio Aluc renovates 100-year old townhouse in Kyoto
Japanese design firm Studio Aluc “deliberately retained traces of past craftsmanship” to transform a historic machiya residence into…
UNC Studio’s Challe cafe in Kyoto fuses Japanese and Mexican design
Interiors firm UNC Studio has transformed a traditional wooden house in Kyoto into a Japanese-Mexican fusion cafe and…
Chinese tourists splash the cash in Japan as weak yen drives travel surge
When Ding Xiaohan, a software engineer from Shanghai, took her 18-year-old son to Japan for a weeklong holiday…