JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED HOTELS19 hotels
Beautifully designed hotels in Kyoto
19 hotels in Kyoto, chosen for their interior design. Areas include Kyoto Station, Karasuma-Oike, Gion, Kiyomizu-Gojo, Sanjo, Kujo. Each page has interior photos, check-in times where published, and how to get there, with the address in Japanese.
Kiyomizu-ware lights and Nishijin-weave foil
A lobby bar lounge that borrows the scenery, and suites with a mizuya
A wide lounge inspired by sajiki viewing seats
A wood-scented hotel themed on “THE BAR”
An entrance lobby like the roji path to a tea room
“Creative hospitality” linking Japanese and international sensibilities
Kyoto-style corridors and rooms that bring in alleys and courtyards
Concept rooms made by artists
Long, narrow “machiya-style” rooms
“Wood, stone and earth” art using old timber and stones from the former Matsuzakaya
A lobby lounge showing kimono chosen by Chikiriya, changed every month
“Mai” rooms inspired by how a kimono is worn
An entrance welcoming you with round light, and a Japanese-style lobby
Like staying in a temple museum, beside a 500-year-old temple
A home-like lobby with house plants and an aroma distiller
Arched-window rooms inside a 1914 modern building
A nine-room hotel on the Shirakawa, designed by Tadao Ando
A Yasaka hotel carrying on a 100-year-old ryotei's sukiya architecture
Where East meets West, in the former Kyoto Central Telephone Office
