An independent media production group of long-term foreign residents of Kyoto.

Planet Kyoto Media creates video programs and DVDs focused on the Cultural, Natural and Architectural traditions and treasures of Kyoto, the ancient captital and cultural heart of Japan.

Bring back photos that you will treasure for a lifetime.

For photography enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their time in Kyoto, Planet Kyoto Media offers a one-of-a-kind Experience Kyoto Photo Quest. We will take you to the lesser known picturesque sites of Kyoto and use our connections to give you access to photograph traditional old houses and shops INSIDE and OUT, with a discussion of significant cultural and architectural aspects of Kyoto, as well as practice with the unique and alluring Kyoto dialect.

A cool evening is so more cool to the skin after a summer so hot, so mercilessly hot as the one now passing.

The chirp of the crickets is the backbeat for the mini-combine harvesters shearing off row after row of rice in the ridiculously small, oddly-shaped paddies between the buildings in town.

Elsewhere, people still do it the old fashioned way, scything the stalks by hand (man, their shoulders must hurt at the end of a day) and racking them up on bucks to dry out for a few days before threshing.

-nils

Kyotown

おこしやす！

Kyotown is a new community website for Kyoto residents, visitors and the Kyotophiles who come back again and again.