Sake Bar Yoramu
Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto
- Wed to Sat
- 18:00 to midnight
- Mon, Tue, Sun
- Closed
Summer breaks go up on its news page. In July and August 2026 it also closed on Wednesdays.
Source: sakebar-yoramu.com, checked 11 Oct 2026.
Yoramu is a sake bar with eight or nine seats at one counter, on a quiet stretch of Nijo-dori. Every sake is picked to be interesting rather than bland, from unpasteurised new sake to amber vintages more than 30 years old. It's all poured by the 60 ml glass, so you can try several side by side, with a little food to go with them but nothing like a full meal.
Insider tip
It's open Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00 to midnight. There are no reservations and no groups of more than three, but if you call 15 minutes before you arrive the owner will hold seats when there are some. By day the same room is Teuchi Toru Soba, serving noodles of 100% buckwheat from 11:30 to 15:00.
What the guides say about Sake Bar Yoramu
Sake Bar Yoramu has eight or nine seats at one counter on Nijo-dori and pours by the 60 ml glass, so you can line up several. It opens Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00 and doesn't take groups bigger than three. Kyoto Brewing Co. Taproom, near Toji Station, has no food, but you can bring your own.
24. A small bar. Sake Bar Yoramu has eight or nine seats and pours sake by the 60 ml glass, Wednesday to Saturday from 18:00. Shinme, on Senbon-dori since 1934, is said to be Kyoto's oldest izakaya. For live music, Coffee House Jittoku has put on shows in an old sake storehouse since 1973.
What's on near Sake Bar Yoramu
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Sake Bar Yoramu, from the weekly Kyoto events calendar.
The Children Who Grew Up with Manga: 40 Years of Manga Culture in Europe
「Mangaと育った子どもたち：ヨーロッパにおけるManga文化の40年」展
Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 2 min walk
How Japanese manga was translated, read, criticised and taken up over 40 years in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany, ending with work by Europeans who grew up on it and now draw manga themselves. It's included in the museum ticket, and the museum is closed on Wednesdays.
ESU, CC BY 3.0 Gion Matsuri Float Procession, Hanagasa Parade and Kanko-sai (second procession)
祇園祭 後祭山鉾巡行・花傘巡行・還幸祭
Time Floats and Hanagasa from 9:30, mikoshi from about 16:00 Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 1 min walk
The second procession, revived in 2014, leaves Karasuma-Oike at 9:30 and runs the first route the other way. The Hanagasa parade sets off from Shimogyo Junior High for the Otabisho and Yasaka Shrine, and from about 16:00 the mikoshi go back to the shrine.
Kan'ei: Beauty Nurtured by Peace
特別展「寛永 太平がはぐくむ美」
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 minutes before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
Marking 400 years since Emperor Go-Mizunoo's visit to Nijo Castle, the museum shows the Kan'ei culture of Hon'ami Koetsu, Tawaraya Sotatsu and Nonomura Ninsei, with scrolls and screens of the imperial procession and a Kano Sanraku hawk painting from Nijo Castle. It's closed on Mondays (open 12 Oct) and 13 Oct, and the ticket covers the permanent galleries too.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 The Indomitable Power of Go Nagai
令和6年能登半島地震復興祈念 不滅の力 永井豪 -永井豪記念館リバイバル-
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 minutes before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk
When the 2024 Noto earthquake burned the Go Nagai Memorial Museum in Wajima, 108 original drawings and figures by the creator of Mazinger Z, Devilman and Cutie Honey were found intact inside. They're shown here with original manuscripts and a new manga he drew for the show, and the museum is closed on Mondays (open 11 Jan) and from 28 Dec to 4 Jan.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Medalist Exhibition
メダリスト展
Time 10:00 to 18:00, Fridays to 19:30 (last entry 30 min before) Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 3 min walk from exit 5
An exhibition on Tsurumaikada's figure skating manga Medalist, with new illustrations drawn for it, famous scenes from the manga, sets that recreate its world and picks from the TV anime. It fills the museum's third and fourth floor galleries.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Nearby
Around Shijo-Karasuma
Kyoto's old bank corner, with kimono streets one block back
Shijo-Karasuma is the crossing where the subway meets the Hankyu line from Osaka, and by 1915 three of the big banks stood on it. It doesn't look much like the Kyoto on the posters. Walk one block west, though, and you're on Muromachi-dori, the old kimono wholesalers' street, near the lanes where the Gion Matsuri floats are built every July.
Shijo-Karasuma has 16 places on the Roam Kyoto map: 4 shops, 3 shrines and temples, 3 cafes, 3 museums, 1 restaurant, 1 bar and 1 neighbourhood. Read the Shijo-Karasuma guide.
Good to know
- What is the address of Sake Bar Yoramu?
- Nijo-dori Higashinotoin Higashi-iru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto (in Japanese: 京都市中京区二条通り東洞院東入る南側).
- What are the opening hours of Sake Bar Yoramu?
- Wed to Sat 18:00 to midnight; Closed Mon, Tue, Sun. Summer breaks go up on its news page. In July and August 2026 it also closed on Wednesdays.
- How do I get to Sake Bar Yoramu?
- The nearest station is Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line). Sake Bar Yoramu is in Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto.
- How much does Sake Bar Yoramu cost?
- Sake Bar Yoramu is mid-range, marked ¥¥ on the site's price scale.
- How long do you need at Sake Bar Yoramu?
- Plan for 1-2 hours.
- When is the best time to visit Sake Bar Yoramu?
- Right at 18:00.
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