9 hotels · Japan
The great hotels of Kyoto
9 luxury hotels in Kyoto are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Tawaraya Ryokan, opened in 1704; the most recent, Six Senses Kyoto, in 2024. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Park Hyatt Kyoto
Opened in October 2019 on the Ninenzaka slope, built around Kyoyamato, a kaiseki restaurant serving since 1877, with 70 rooms facing the Yasaka Pagoda.
70 rooms
Tawaraya Ryokan
Eighteen rooms on Fuyacho street run by the same family since about 1704, where Hitchcock and Sartre slept on futons and dined in their rooms.
18 rooms
Aman Kyoto
Kerry Hill's last work: 26 rooms in a forest garden of moss and stone paths in Takagamine, northern Kyoto, opened in November 2019.
26 rooms
Hoshinoya Kyoto
A 25-room inn on the Oi river in Arashiyama reached only by boat, with karakami walls printed by a Kyoto studio founded in 1624.
25 rooms
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
Five storeys on the Kamogawa at Nijo bridge, built low to Kyoto's height rules around the garden of a Meiji industrialist's villa.
134 rooms
Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto
A hotel built in 2016 around Shakusui-en, an 800-year-old pond garden mentioned in the Tale of the Heike, in the temple district of Higashiyama.
123 rooms
Hiiragiya
Since 1818 the same family has run this ryokan on Kyoto's Fuyacho-dori, directly across the street from Tawaraya.
Six Senses Kyoto
Opened in April 2024 in Higashiyama with 81 rooms around a central garden, a walk from Sanjusangendo and the Toyokuni Shrine.
81 rooms
Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto
A gate dated to 1703 leads into the former Kyoto estate of the Mitsui family, now a hotel with its own hot spring beside Nijo Castle.
161 rooms