［At Craft House Kyoto (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture), visitors can taste 12 kinds of craft beers from Japan and other countries in an open space renovated from a 100-year-old machiya townhouse. The lineup focuses on low-alcohol beers that are relaxing and comfortably intoxicating. It also focuses on coffee and sweets, making it perfect for café use.

CENTRO (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture), where you can enjoy stone kiln cuisine that locks in the flavor of the ingredients, offers pizza, burrata cheese caprese with seasonal fruit, oven-baked bagna cauda using local vegetables, and other dishes from various regions of Italy. The restaurant can accommodate more than 30 people, making it a reliable place for large drinking parties.

Wine Shokudo KINOHACHI Kyoto Ekimae (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture) is run by the childhood friends of owner and bartender Daiki Fujimoto and chef Ken Ueda. Mr. Ueda, who is also a certified vegetable sommelier, offers French and Italian dishes that skillfully incorporate locally grown vegetables and Kyoto ingredients such as white miso, which are an excellent marriage with carefully selected wines. He also offers pairing suggestions, so feel free to ask him about them.

A five-minute walk from Kyoto Station. ［Enjoy the fluffy, crispy and pleasantly chewy kushikatsu course at Sousaku Kushikatsu Yara (Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture). The restaurant's specialty, the "sea tiger prawn," which appears at the end of the course, is a must-try! You will be amazed at the size of the prawn and the plumpness of the meat. Both counter and table seating is available for date night and group dining.

At Hablamos (Minami-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture), located near the Hachijo exit of Kyoto Station, you can enjoy Spanish cuisine that makes the most of fresh ingredients such as vegetables grown in Kyoto and fish directly shipped from Maizuru, along with a wide variety of drinks. The cozy atmosphere will keep you chatting and drinking. The ajijo (shrimp and kujo leek) dish, with its addictive garlic flavor, is a must repeat!

Have you found a restaurant you want to go to? You can have a full course meal or just have a quick drink and go on the go. Here are five restaurants that you should definitely keep in mind in the area around Kyoto Station, a hot area right now. We hope you will make the most of them.