Kyoto Avanti is a large shopping mall located directly across from the south side of Kyoto Station. Popular with younger shoppers and visitors using the Hachijo side of the station, this mall is useful for casual shopping, inexpensive fashion, restaurants, daily goods, anime and hobby shops.
Restaurants are concentrated in the basement, Don Quijote (Donki) occupies the 2nd floor, fashion and lifestyle shops are spread across the middle floors, GU is on the 5th floor, and the 6th floor is a subculture floor with anime, trading-card, game, and character-goods shops. Here are the highlights.
Kyoto Avanti Shopping Mall
The Avanti basement level is Avachika, Avanti’s restaurant and casual dining floor. Here you will find fast food and snack options such as McDonald’s, takoyaki, and crepes, plus proper sit down restaurants serving okonomiyaki, soba, sushi, eel, Chinese xiaolongbao, beer hall food, izakaya dishes, and family-restaurant meals.
There’s plenty of dining opportunities in the Avanti basement
On the 1st floor there are a number of shops and services including ABC-Mart for shoes, Gransacs for bags, Goo Tee for watches and accessories, and Tansuy for recycled kimonos.
1st Floor baggage store
1st Floor shoe store
There are also handy everyday stops on this floor, including Tully’s Coffee, Cocokara Fine, a Seven Bank ATM, and a foreign-money exchange machine.
1st Floor retail shops
If you are short of cash, look for the Seven Bank ATM on the 1st floor. Seven Bank ATMs accept many international bank cards, such as Visa, Plus, MasterCard, Maestro, Cirrus, UnionPay, American Express, JCB, Discover, and Diners Club International.
Seven Bank ATM services are listed on the 1st floor
The 2nd floor is occupied by Don Quijote, which is useful for snacks, cosmetics, souvenirs, travel goods, household items, and late shopping. The 3rd floor has fashion and daily-use shops such as Honeys, aimerfeel, Avail, Seria, Prisalom, and JINS.
Fashion and daily-use shops can be found on the 3rd floor
Seria on the 3rd floor is the mall’s 100-yen shop. It is a good spot for inexpensive stationery, small travel items, kitchen goods, and other everyday bargains. You should check the price of everything you buy however, because though everything is cheap, some goods are priced higher than 100 yen.
Seria is on the 3rd floor
The 4th floor is useful for Shimamura, a low-priced clothing and household-goods chain, while the 5th floor is home to GU.
The upper floors include fashion, daily goods and subculture shops
GU on the 5th floor has casual clothing for women, men and children.
GU is on the 5th floor
The 6th floor is Avanti’s main subculture floor, with shops such as Animate, Card Labo, Rashinban, Game Mate, and Space Galleria for anime, comics, character goods, trading cards, games, and related hobby goods.
Anime and hobby shops are concentrated on the 6th floor
Hotel Keihan Kyoto Grande
Hotel Keihan Kyoto Grande is part of Avanti shopping mall complex. It has immediate access to the mall’s retail and restaurant facilities.
Kyoto Avanti Location Map
Avanti is located on the south side of Kyoto Station, directly outside the Hachijo side of the station building. It is immediately accessible from JR Kyoto Station’s Hachijo Exit, about 3 minutes on foot from Kintetsu Kyoto Station, and about 1 minute on foot from the Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyoto Station. An underground passage leads from Kyoto Station to the B1 level of Kyoto Avanti.
Opening hours
Restaurants: generally 11:00 – 22:00
Shops: generally 10:00 – 21:00
Don Quijote (2F): 9:00 – 24:00
Gusto (B1F): 10:00 – 22:00
Shimamura (4F): 10:00 – 20:00
Article and original photos by Michael Lambe. All rights reserved. Last updated 05-Jul-2026.
