{
  "project": "Small Guides",
  "city": "Kyoto",
  "local_city_name": "京都",
  "pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
  "country": "Japan",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Lists of places that age well, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/kyoto",
  "updated": "May 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◌": "marked, not yet judged",
    "○": "selected",
    "◎": "selected with deeper gravity"
  },
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      "slug": "kurasu",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Kyoto Station",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Coffee",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Coffee, beans, and objects for quiet mornings.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "2050",
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      "city": "Kyoto",
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      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Kawaramachi",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Coffee",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Touristy streets, serious coffee, and service that remembers you.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Kitaoji Roastery Lab",
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      "city": "Kyoto",
      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Kitaoji",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Coffee",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A roastery lab in the quiet north. Coffee treated like research.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
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      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "HOSOO Gallery",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Karasuma",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Centuries of Nishijin weaving, shown like contemporary art.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Taka Ishii Gallery",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Shimogyo",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Serious photography, quiet rooms, eyes switched on.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Okazaki",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A restored 1933 hall where modern art meets civic pride.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
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      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto",
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      "area": "Okazaki",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Modern Japan, calmly hung, a torii away from the crowds.",
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      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "YAMAHON Kyoto",
      "slug": "yamahon-kyoto",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Sanjo",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Pottery and craft chosen with a curator’s restraint. Marked before judgment.",
      "judgment_status": "marked",
      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Kanetaka Hamono",
      "local_name": "金高刃物老舗 本店",
      "slug": "kanetaka-hamono",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Kawaramachi",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Shop",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A knife shop with family gravity. Buy the one you’ll cook with for decades.",
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      "visited": true,
      "public": true,
      "bring_home_note": "The SLD ko-santoku — an everyday Kyoto object with a k-tip you’ll keep reaching for."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ine",
      "local_name": "伊根",
      "slug": "ine",
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      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Tango Coast",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Funaya boathouses on still water. Kyoto, slowed all the way to the sea.",
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      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Uji",
      "local_name": "宇治",
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      "city": "Kyoto",
      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Uji",
      "country": "Japan",
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      "symbol": "◌",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Tea, a river, and temples. Marked, and waiting for a free afternoon.",
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      "experience_status": "researched",
      "visited": false,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Sakai Traditional Crafts Museum",
      "slug": "sakai-traditional-crafts-museum",
      "city": "Kyoto",
      "local_city_name": "京都",
      "city_pronunciation": "kyoh-toh",
      "area": "Sakai, Osaka",
      "country": "Japan",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "symbol": "○",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Where the blades begin. Just outside Kyoto, the forging city explains the knife.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}