［2025] Popular local restaurants! 21 Recommended Izakayas in Kyoto

Leaf KYOTO ［2025] Popular local restaurants! 21 recommended izakaya in Kyoto

2025.3.18

Local popular restaurant! Recommended Izakaya in Kyoto

［2025] Popular local restaurants! 21 recommended izakaya in Kyoto

If you want to have a drink in Kyoto today, this is the place for you. We pick up izakaya (Japanese style pubs) and bars with a reputation for delicious food as well as drinks. We introduce not only stylish hideouts in back alleys and machiya townhouses with a sense of history that are unique to Kyoto, but also restaurants in front of train stations that are easily accessible and noteworthy places where you can enjoy conversation with the owner. Some of the restaurants are also open for lunchtime drinking. Enjoy sake or wine along with the exquisite menu according to your mood of the day.

Contents of this article

1.: Rokkaku Ace] / Karasuma, where you can enjoy your favorite drinks and neo-Western food in a good mood.

2.: ［Inoue is a small restaurant that is perfect for solo diners / Shijo Omiya

3.: Hashiya and Nakase] /Karasuma, where you can find a wide variety of dishes that go well with alcohol.

4.: Home-style cooking at Sambady where drinks go down a treat / Kyoto Gosho area

5.: ［Ponchu-ya Santoku Roku Roku Mi Gojo Takakura Branch] for poka-poka chicken white soup oden / Gojo

6.: Enjoy a variety of dishes until late at night [Ohashi] / Horikawa Sanjo

7.: Enjoy Kyoto's delicious tofu in a casual atmosphere [Kitsune Biyori] / Kyoto Station area

8.: A popular stand-up drinking spot with excellent usability [Tsukinokoguma] / Karasuma

9.: Taste the marriage of Japanese food and wine [moku] / Kiyomizu Gojo

10.: A gem that brings out the best of the ingredients at the hidden bar [Niev] / Shijo Omiya

11.: ［Mihara Laundry is a "back" bar for sake lovers! Gion

12.: COPPIE] / Shijo-Omiya, a must for both wine and sake lovers

13.: Enjoy the true taste of chicken at Yakitori Seri, located at the end of a back alley / Karasuma

14.: Various and free cuisine at [Cuisine & Wine Ibaraki] to enjoy with bio-wine / Kyoto Gosho area

15.: ［A simple entrée that will make your eyes sparkle with the connoisseurship of Paris Honpo / Karasuma Oike

16.: Adult wine bar in a modern Kyoto townhouse [Waindo] / Karasuma

17.: Machiya Bar [Vegetables and Fish en] / Karasuma

18.: The appetizing aroma of sauce at "All Teppan Atsutsu..." in a back alley in Hanamachi / Miyagawa-cho

19.: Izakaya where you can finish your meal with excellent noodles [Kakuuchi to menmen Banzan] / Gojo

20.: ［Enjoy freshly fried skewers with a glass of wine at Gion Shimogawara Orijin/Higashiyama

21.: Boasts a menu full of vegetable entrées! Shluv kyoto] / Nishiki Market area

21. Boasts a menu full of vegetable entrées! Shluv kyoto] / Nishiki Market area

Shluv kyoto (Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) was opened by a sommelier and a sake-loving sister who wanted "an extraordinary experience of drinking from noon. The store, which is housed in a renovated machiya, the family home of a former green grocer, offers 20 kinds of sake and 40 kinds of wine, and when you tell them what you want to drink, they will recommend what they think you would like to drink. The sisters, who are experts in both sake and vegetables, also offer a variety of dishes.

Three kinds of omakase snacks for 1,200 yen. From left to right: Oyasai Shiro-Age (dressed with finely ground sesame seeds for a smooth texture), Hijiki Nimono (simmered hijiki mushrooms with cream cheese), and Seri and Kazuko Nuta (dried sardines and dried young sardines). The contents change with the seasons, and can be ordered for 600 yen each.

Shluv kyoto

Shulabh Kohout (Japanese religious group founded by Matsunaga Shirakawa)
506 Masuya-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
2 minutes walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station" Exit 11
Tel. 075-221-2315
13:00 - 20:00 (LO/19:00)

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