Hotels in Kyoto

Tadao Ando's luxury boutique hotel in Kyoto's Gion district occupies a converted machiya in the historic Shinmonzen antique street, the architect's signature board-formed concrete and water elements giving the building a contemporary minimalist rigour in the heart of one of Japan's most carefully preserved historic neighbourhoods.

Elegant, individually decorated rooms in a chic 1800s lodging with communal bathhouses & free meals.

Banyan Tree's Kyoto outpost faces Nijo Castle directly, with rooms designed by Studio Glitt and a small ryokan-leaning program built around quiet, rather than spectacle.

A Kyoto hotel by the Tokyu Stay group that takes the machiya townhouse aesthetic as its design reference—timber, shoji, and the particular proportions of Kyoto's historic residential architecture, interpreted for contemporary hospitality.

A lovingly renovated 120-year-old machiya townhouse in Kyoto's historic Muromachi area, the Hiramatsu group's city hotel combines traditional joinery and garden rooms with the kitchen precision and hospitality standards that define the group's other properties.

Kengo Kuma and Commune Design's 2020 conversion of a historic Kyoto telephone building into a culture-driven hotel.

A luxury hotel on the former Mitsui family estate directly opposite Nijo Castle, where traditional Japanese aesthetics and natural hot spring spa treatments combine at one of Kyoto's most historically significant addresses.

Opened July 2024 on Kyoto's historic Sanjo-dori with eight integrated gardens and the chain's first reservation-only private bath—a considered new addition to a corridor traditionally dominated by machiya-style boutique accommodation.