Best Restaurants In Gionshijo･Kawaramachi Station

Freshly Squeezed Mont Blanc

Montblanc specialty store in Kiyamachi. The Montblanc that comes out of a sea urchin with a custom-made machine is artistic. Its thinness is 1 mm. This store is very popular every day.

Jelly Punch that Makes Jelly Look Like Jewel, Blue Retro Coffee Shop

A retro coffee shop famous for its jewel-like beautiful jelly punch. It was a blissful time to look at the jelly punch in the blue space. There are only popular shops, so the days I visited are lined up! The photos are from past visits, but I think they are still available.

An Exquisite Strawberry Parfait Made Right in Front of You

A Kyoto strawberry parfait that you can enjoy at the ERUTAN tasting bar zone. You can see the pastry chef making the parfait over the counter. Sweet and sour strawberries. A delicious and cute parfait made with white wine jelly and strawberry sorbet. Complete reservation system Reservations must be made by 15:00 the day before.

First Rate At All! A Café Of KIKUNOI(菊乃井), A Representative Ryotei In Kyoto

This café, opened in April 2017, offers us the taste and mood of KIKUNOI casually. You can eat delicious sweets in the hospitality same as Ryotei and beautiful Japanese garden.◎Café Time: 14:45~17:00 Lunch Time: lunch box 'Shigure-meshi Bento' starts at 11:00 and 13

Spring Limited Sweets♡ Cherry Blossoms Eklan

Nice wonderful Western-style cafe Nagarakukan in Maruyama Park, Kyoto. Sakura Eklan is a limited-time sweet only in spring. It's made of yuzu sauce, chocolate-painted, and embroidered with a cherry blossom-colored candy. The staff made it in front of me.

Both Savory And Macaroons Are Chestnuts. Ladurée Chestnut Afternoon Tea

I had a chestnut afternoon tea at Ladurée Kyoto Shijo store. Macaroons of Japanese chestnuts are used for Mont Blanc, and savory is also used for mini parfaits of chestnuts and pears. Afternoon tea where you can enjoy plenty of sweet chestnut sweets.

So Lovely Shaved Ice

We can eat shaved ice with lovely bear face! White bear (white syrup) and yellow bear (citrus) with cute small eyes❤ I like the shop white-based exterior.

Dessert Latte

ROCCA & FRIENDS TRUCK is a must-visit cafe when we travel in Kyoto. They offer dessert latte with full of Kyoto scenes. You can take pictures of them against the background of Yasaka Pagoda.

Beautiful Parfaits

Kyoka Matcha Parfait (available only at Shijo store), and Kogashi Kinako (roasted soy bean flour) Parfait. They're gorgeous parfaits with the beautiful appearance of layer and various texture. You can have Kinako on the table as many as you want, so you can enjoy them to the last spoon.◎The second store of Kissho Saryo was opened on 12/19.

Gion Tokuya's Plump and Simmering Cool Japanese Sweets

Gion Tokuya is a popular sweets shop located on Hanamikoji Street in Gion, Kyoto. What I got here was a combination of warabimochi and honkuzumochi. Honkuzumochi is made from high-quality Japanese bracken starch and has a simmering texture. Thanks to the ice, you can keep it cold all the time and use it as shaved ice at the end. Cool sweets perfect for this time of year.

Slippery Warabimochi

I had Gion Komori's Matcha Warabimochi and Kinako Warabimochi. Warabimochi made from 100% bracken starch is smooth and chewy. Sprinkle black honey if you like.

A Photogenic Breakfast Of An Aged Coffee Shop

Though it's an aged and elegant coffee shop, its colorful toast breakfast has become the talk. Butter toast with six kinds of jam, a drink, fruit, vegetable juice and yogurt. It's only 450yen!◎Breakfast : 9:00~11:00, till the stocks out. It's sometime sold out at 10:00, so visit earlier. You don't need to order as a set meal.

Photogenic Strawberry Sweets

Spilling Strawberry Parfait uses as many as one pack of strawberry. I'm happy to eat so many strawberries♡ It's prepared only ten glasses a day, so if you want to it, please visit just after the cafe opens!

Uji's High-class Matcha Degri-Naison

"Degrineson" is to make the best use of one ingredient by various cooking methods. It's a matcha "degrineson", so it's a sweet made with matcha. The Kyomachiya Renovation shop in Gion, Kyoto, enjoyed delicious matcha sweets in a cozy Japanese space that feels like you are in a lounge.

Long Chestnut Mont Blanc

Nakayama chestnuts from Ehime Prefecture are said to be one of Japan's top three chestnuts. It is a horizontally long Mont Blanc with plenty of chestnut flavor that is squeezed after ordering. Rich chestnut cream on a sponge with chestnut paste inside. It contains chunks of diced chestnuts. The crunchy texture of the Nakayama chestnut and the creamy crunchy meringue are also delicious.

Delicious & Beautiful Fresh Beef Donburi

The restaurant buys a whole Matsuzaka Beef at once, so customers can eat lower-priced lunch of high quality beef. This 'Gyu-sen Don' is displayed gorgeously on a plate, so we can enjoy both its appearance and taste.

A Relaxing Room Decorated With Many Dried Flowers

1er ETAGE is a specialty shop of dried flowers, where many flowers make the relaxing atmosphere. They offer some kinds of drinks and one kind of sweet at a cafe in the shop. And dried flower bouquet to meet your budget.

Tasty And Chic Coffee

% ARABICA Kyoto Higashiyama is a coffee shop offering so tasty coffee that there's a line of people to buy. Many people enjoy taking pictures of its coffee with colorful balls at Yasaka Koshin-do Temple located near here.

Specially Made Shaved Ice Offered All Around A Year

They offer different flavors for shaved ice every year. The ice is fluffy, and the syrups are made specially. We never get headache during eating it! It's a must-try shaved ice!

Taiyaki of Sea Bream Is Too Cute. Butter Has One-Minute Expiration Date! The Butter Melts!

A cute Taiyaki-san who is particular about bean paste, dough, sardines and butter. I like bean paste, so choose it. 390yen It seems to be the most popular. My friend is Banana Custard 350yen. Be careful that the butter melts because the butter is left behind. Even the dough was too delicious.

Colorful Pop Melon Soda

When I traveled in Kyoto with my friends, I found a colorful cafe and we entered like to be swallowed up. The melon soda was also colorful and we were puzzled what to choose, but all of them were delicious!

Always in Line! ️Popular Duck Ramen with Signboard and Menu Table with Only Pictograms

A popular duck ramen shop in the back alley of Gion, Kyoto. A shop with a menu table on a signboard with only pictograms. What I received was the M size of the duck soup ramen on the signboard menu. The light soup of duck and kelp and the meat of the duck are firm and satisfying. The refreshing spiciness of Aoyama pepper on the plate seems to be addictive.

Tamatebako of Smoked Meat Sushi, An Exquisite Treat that Makes You Feel Like Urashima Taro

The appetizer is smoked egg and smoked roast pork. The smoked scent is also good. And the meat sushi is smoked Tamate box. The sirloin, hiuchi, tonbi and smoked meat sushi are really delicious! I also have dessert.

The Soft Cream in The Croissant Is Too Cute

A croissant soft-serve ice cream specialty store. Ideas are so nice They celebrated their one year anniversary in September. Azuki vanilla topping, strawberry chocolate bear, croissant with chocolate. Stuffed with homemade red bean paste. Chestnut chocolate topped with bear chocolate and croissants with chocolate almonds.

So Fluffy Pancake

ELK sells Halloween Horror Night Pancake. Lovely ELK ghosts peeping from the pancake, have 2 kinds of ice cream. It's an attractive pancake excellent for Halloween.◎It's a limited edition during 10/1-10/31.

Lovely Decorated Crapes

Bliss Creperie is a crape specialty shop just opened on July 2018. It has lovely outside suitable for a crape shop. They prepare crapes good for both sweet and meal. and all of them are well-decorated and lovely.

Chic Cafe & Drinks

Drink Bottle with uncle illustration is now on sale from W/O STAND. There're three kinds, strawberry milk, matcha milk, and chocolate milk from the left in this pic. It's a coffee stand with chic blue sign board and door.

Warabi Mochi Cafe With A Beautiful Japanese Garden Ranked 11th In The US Ranking

Rakusho is a warabi-mochi cafe located at Nene Street near Kodai-ji Temple. They offer also coffee and parfait. We can enjoy having tea, warabi-mochi, and watching beautiful garden and carp. It's a wonderful place that is ranked in Japanese garden ranking.