Kyoto · Shopping

Best unique stores in Kyoto

21 places, each checked by our team.

• Ajari-mochi Honpo Mangetsu 阿闍梨餅本舗 京菓子司 満月 本店Demachiyanagi / Sakyo — Main shop of the maker of ajari-mochi, Kyoto's favourite soft red-bean pastry souvenir.
• Aritsugu 有次Nishiki Market — A knife maker founded in 1560 that once forged swords for the Imperial court, now selling hand-forged kitchen knives in Nishiki Market. Names…
• Demachi Futaba 出町ふたばDemachiyanagi — Kyoto's most famous mochi shop, where the line forms daily for mame-mochi: soft rice cake studded with salty red peas and filled with sweet bean…
• Don Quijote Kyoto Avanti ドン・キホーテ京都アバンティ店Kyoto Station — The Don Quijote in the Kyoto Avanti shopping building directly outside the Hachijo (south) Exit of Kyoto Station, open until midnight.
• Don Quijote Kyoto Fushimi ドン・キホーテ京都伏見店Fushimi — A neighbourhood Don Quijote in southern Fushimi, open 9:00-0:00 (midnight).
• Don Quijote Kyoto Karasuma Shichijo ドン・キホーテ京都烏丸七条店Kyoto Station — A Don Quijote on Shichijo-dori just north of Kyoto Station, open until 1:00 and handy for the many hotels around the station.
• Don Quijote Kyoto Minami Inter ドン・キホーテ京都南インター店Kamitoba — A neighbourhood Don Quijote near the Kyoto-Minami interchange of the Meishin Expressway, open 10:00-5:00 (next day).
• Don Quijote Kyoto Rakusai ドン・キホーテ洛西店Rakusai — A neighbourhood Don Quijote in Kataginohara, western Kyoto, open 10:00-0:00 (midnight).
• Don Quijote Kyoto Shijo Kawaramachi ドン・キホーテ四条河原町店Kawaramachi — The Don Quijote on Kawaramachi-dori in central Kyoto's main shopping district, open until 1:00.
• Don Quijote Shijo-dori ドン・キホーテ四条通店Shijo / Kawaramachi — A Don Quijote on Shijo-dori one minute from Kyoto-Kawaramachi Station, between the Nishiki Market area and the Kamo River, open until 1:00.
• Don Quijote Uzumasa Tenjingawa ドン・キホーテ太秦天神川店Uzumasa — A neighbourhood Don Quijote by Uzumasa-Tenjingawa Station in western Kyoto, on the way to Arashiyama, open 9:00-1:00 (next day).
• Fuka Nishiki 麩嘉 錦店Nishiki Market — Nishiki Market outpost of a historic nama-fu (wheat gluten) maker, best known for bamboo-leaf-wrapped fu-manju.
• Ichizawa Shinzaburo Hanpu 一澤信三郎帆布Higashiyama (Chion-in) — Handmade canvas bags from a Higashiyama workshop that has stitched them since 1905: simple, nearly indestructible and sold only here.
• Imanishiken 今西軒Gojo / Karasuma — Small sweet shop near Gojo Station famous for ohagi rice cakes coated in smooth or coarse red-bean paste.
• Ippodo Tea Kyoto Main Store 一保堂茶舗 京都本店Teramachi Nijo — Kyoto's most respected tea merchant since 1717: a dark-wood shop on Teramachi selling matcha, gyokuro and sencha, with the Kaboku tearoom where…
• Kameya Yoshinaga Honten 亀屋良長 本店Shijo-Horikawa — Kyoto confectioner founded in 1803, known for the black-sugar sweet Ubatama and modern lines.
• Kyoto Handicraft Center 京都ハンディクラフトセンターOkazaki / Shogoin — A large multi-floor craft and souvenir store near Heian Shrine, with Kyoto crafts, kimono, ceramics and woodblock prints, plus hands-on workshops.
• Kyukyodo Kyoto Honten 鳩居堂 京都本店Teramachi Oike — Incense, washi paper, calligraphy brushes and seasonal postcards from a shop founded in 1663, on Teramachi opposite City Hall.
• MEGA Don Quijote Kyoto Yamashina MEGAドン・キホーテ山科店Yamashina — A large-format MEGA Don Quijote with a full grocery section by Nagitsuji Station in Yamashina, open 9:00-0:00 (midnight).
• Ryokujuan Shimizu 緑寿庵清水Hyakumanben / Sakyo — Long-established konpeito specialist selling hand-made star-shaped sugar candies in seasonal flavours.
• Yojiya Gion よーじや 祇園店Gion — The Kyoto cosmetics brand with the face-in-a-mirror logo, famous for oil-blotting papers once favoured by geiko and maiko. Its Gion shop is a…