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.
Yoake no Uta EXHIBITION: Two Million Stars
夜明けの唄 EXHIBITION 〜Two Million Stars〜
Time 10:00 to 17:00 (last entry 16:30), closed Wednesdays and 11 and 12 Oct, museum admission applies Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 2 min walk
An exhibition on the manga Yoake no Uta in Gallery 4 on the second floor of the Kyoto International Manga Museum, free with museum admission.
ESU, CC BY 3.0 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 Chikatsukuu 10 (Chika Tetsu ni Norutsu fan-works event)
「地下鉄に乗るっ」二次創作イベント「ちかつくっ10」
Time 11:00 to 15:00 Station Karasuma Oike (Karasuma Line, Tozai Line), 2 min walk
A fan-works sale event for the Kyoto subway promotion project 'Chikatetsu ni Noru', held in the museum's multipurpose video hall.
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.
18th Kyoto Historica International Film Festival
第18回京都ヒストリカ国際映画祭
Station Karasuma-Oike (Karasuma, Tozai Lines)
A film festival devoted to historical drama, with Japanese period-film classics, new historical films from abroad and screenings at the Museum of Kyoto.
Photograph by Mike Peel www.mikepeel.net., CC BY-SA 4.0 Smaller local events nearby
Kinshi Masamune Autumn Brewery Open Day Food
Sat 24 Oct · Kinshi Masamune, Fushimi
An autumn brewery open day held at Kinshi Masamune in Fushimi.
10:00 to 15:00 · Map · Source: 伏見酒造組合 (Fushimi Sake Brewers Association) · キンシ正宗「秋の蔵開き」
COSJOY Cosplay Event Festival
Sun 8 Nov · Kyoto International Manga Museum, Karasuma Oike
A cosplay event held at the Kyoto International Manga Museum.
Map · Source: Kyoto International Manga Museum · コスプレイベント COSJOY
Live music nearby
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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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