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Kyoto · Japan · Updated 5 October 2026
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Kengo Kuma's building around the 1926 Kyoto Central Telephone Office
Commune Design handled the interiors of the 213 rooms. The hotel runs a large programme of local art and music.
On the recordDesign press (Wallpaper*, Dezeen) · MICHELIN Guide listed
An early Kyoto design hotel, with machiya-inspired rooms and hinoki baths
UDS runs it near Higashi Hongan-ji, with a kitchen-restaurant and a shop stocking Kyoto makers.
On the recordDesign press
Thirty-one rooms, each by a different artist, on the Kamo River
A gallery runs up the ten-floor stairwell, and there is a bar by the river.
On the recordArt press · MICHELIN Guide listed
Eighty-one rooms directly above Marutamachi Station
A design hotel next to the Kyoto Gyoen, the gardens of the Imperial Palace.
On the recordMICHELIN Guide listed · Design press (Wallpaper*)
A wellbeing hotel in Kyoto wood above a food hall
Part of GOOD NATURE STATION at Shijo-Kawaramachi, with shops below the 148 rooms. It is Japanese-operated.
On the recordWELL certification (reported)
Japan's first dispersed hotel, about 200 rooms in five buildings
Its tea room and gym are spread across the buildings, so guests walk the streets between them.
On the recordDesign press
Machiya inns between the two Hongan-ji temples
A small local operator runs two inns, Honganji and Urushitei, with wooden baths and tatami rooms.
On the recordGuidebook and booking-site praise
A century-old house and clay-walled storehouse, let to two guests
CASE-REAL renovated it in 2015, beside the Nichinichi gallery of fine Japanese craft.
On the recordDesign press (CASE-REAL)
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