Jazz in Rokudenashi is one of Kyoto's rougher-edged jazz bars: small, informal and closer to a lived-in local room than a designed hi-fi lounge. The venue keeps an active music calendar and the jazz focus is the main reason to go. It is not the place for polished cocktail-bar listening. It is the place for records, sessions, regulars, and the kind of Kyoto bar energy that can feel wonderfully unvarnished when the music is right.