KYOCHESS
Meet your chess in KYOTO
What is KYOCHESS?
Chess connects people across borders, cultures, and backgrounds.
Left on its own, chess remains just a game. Integrated into everyday life, it becomes culture.
That is the space KYOCHESS is building toward—where chess is lived, shared through human interaction.
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When chess enters daily life, its influence deepens. Ideas move, conversations open, and strangers connect.
This is Chess × Life.
Open to everyone.
Built around connection.
This is chess as a social experience.
Come for the game.
Stay for the people.
Leave as one of us.
Kyoto is a city where culture lives through everyday moments.
Chess finds its place here the same way — quietly, across tables, bars, and conversations between locals and travelers.
Chessin’ Kyoto is about letting the game exist naturally within the rhythm of the city, becoming part of how people meet, stay, and return.
Chess Scene in Japan
Beyond Kyoto
Chess doesn’t grow in isolation.
Beyond Kyoto reflects the connections formed with clubs and communities beyond the city.
Different scenes meet through the board, allowing chess culture to move, learn, and expand.
Osaka
Nara
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