Japan wants 60 million tourists, but China isn’t sending them
Japan has found a new export industry and it doesn’t come off an assembly line. It arrives by…
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Kyoto‘s historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here,…
Keiji Ashizawa transforms 120-year-old townhouse into rental home
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original…
Traditional townhouses inform interiors of Capella Kyoto hotel
The unique “rhythm and progression” of Japanese machiya townhouses helped Brewin Design Office devise the interiors of this…
Old Folk House in Iwakura / td-Atelier
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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…
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Foreign entrepreneurs fuel innovation in Kyoto
Startups Startups want to show how traditional industries can find new relevance Number of funded startups in Kyoto…