Best hotels in Kyoto
Our current city-wide picks, chosen from the hotels we have reviewed. The shortlist mixes locations, styles and trip types rather than treating the most expensive properties as automatically best.
Hotel Okura Kyoto
Downtown — Kawaramachi & Shijō
A large Western hotel of 320 rooms on the Kawaramachi-Oike corner, at the northern edge of the downtown grid.
Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
Gion & Southern Higashiyama
A modern hotel on Yasaka-dōri, west of Higashiōji, in the Komatsu-chō block of southern Higashiyama.
Hotel Granvia Kyoto
Kyoto Station
A large hotel built into the Kyoto Station complex at the central gate, on the Shimogyō side.
Hotel Keihan Kyoto Ekiminami
Kyoto Station
A straightforward modern hotel on Higashikujō-Muromachi, a minute south of Kyoto Station's Hachijō exit.
Kyoto Brighton Hotel
Imperial Palace & Nishijin
A full-service hotel on Shinmachi-dōri in Kamigyō, a short walk west of the Kyoto Imperial Palace grounds.
Kyoto Nanzenji Garden Ryokan Yachiyo
Northern Higashiyama — Okazaki & Ginkaku-ji
A ryokan established in 1915 at Nanzenji Fukuchi-chō in Sakyō, inside the Nanzenji villa district.
Arashiyama Benkei
Arashiyama
A riverside ryokan at Susukinobaba-chō in Saga Tenryūji, on the Ōi river bank in Arashiyama.
Position is our editorial judgement, not a score. Price is the published level of the area a hotel sits in, not a nightly rate: this site quotes none. There is no sort by rating, because we issue no rating and do not republish anyone else's. Property facts come from authoritative sources; no hotel pays for a place on this list.