Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
京呉服塚本, Kyoto’s Nearly Century-Old Kimono Shop
The official site for a family-run Kyoto kimono shop selling traditional garments, obi, and related goods online and by appointment.
Why it surfaced塚本 says it has operated for about 100 years in Kyoto’s Nakagyo Ward, near the Gion Festival’s procession of floats. The site asks visitors to reserve a visit in advance because the tiny shop can host only one customer group at a time, then promises a relaxed welcome from its “down-to-earth” proprietor and proprietress, with plenty of conversation.
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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged
August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.