Kyoto Hotel Okura

Great hotel

It's a very nice hotel, the rooms are big and very comfortable. Great location, right by a subway station and close to the shopping area.I would stay there again if I go to Kyoto.

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Simply Wonderful

The Kyoto Okura is an exceptionally fine hotel. The rooms are clean, comfortable, well appointed. The staff is energetic and helpful. The location is outstanding. For travelers, access to the hotel from the Kyoto train station is either via a cab ride of about 1100 yen, or the trip can be made in a single bus trip or by subway. The lobby of the hotel is calm, sedate, dark. Our room was one of the larger doubles, and it was split into two sections by a small wall filled with storage spaces. Outside of the sleeping area is a sitting area, with a couch, an easy chair and two desks. A free and very fast wired Internet connection was at one of the desks. The other desk has a very helpful socket that can accept British, European or American plugs. The bathroom is very well appointed as well: it has a large vanity, a walk-in shower and a large bathtub. There is a high definition television in both the sitting area and the bedroom area. The hotel has two concierges on duty during the busy hours. They are very well acquainted both with local restaurants and with the details of how to get to any place one might wish to visit. The local area has many restaurants within easy walking distance covering a broad range of price and type. There is a multi-block covered shopping area two blocks away, and the marvelous Pontocho, street of restaurants and bars, is also only a few minutes away on foot. Kyoto is a wonderful city to stay in, and the Hotel Okura is a great place to stay in Kyoto.

High Quality Hotel in Very Good Location

My wife and I stayed at the Kyoto Hotel Okura for four nights in late March/early April 2009 and were very happy with our stay there. The hotel is very modern with nice rooms. The staff was great. Everyone was so helpful and they all spoke good English. As for the location, we thought it was very good. The central shopping and dining area starts just south of the hotel, about a 5-minute walk away. (The prime "main & main" interstection of Kawaramchi & shijo was about a 15 to 20-minute walk away straight down Kawaramachi). Plus from the hotel, you could easily walk to Pontocho Alley (which is parallel to Kawaramchi. The Gion district (Geisha Quarter and more shopping/dining) is on the other side of the river, another 5-10 minutes after you get to the prime shopping corner I mentioned, and also very walkable--we walked to/from Gion several times. By the way, there's also a subway station directly under the hotel. Anyway, we thought this location was infinitely better than the cluster of hotels around the train station where you can't walk to much at all. The Kyoto Hotel Okura is also the tallest building in the city with great views from the upper floors. There was a restaurant on the top floor where we had breakfast buffet a couple times. It wasn't cheap, but it wasn't outragous and it was good if you are in a hurry.

fantastic

after a busy trip in a sub standard name brand hotel in Guam we went to a weekend getaway in Kyoto, the hotel was the highpoint, service was unbelieveably attentive and accomodating, and all with no tipping, the hotel anticipated everything and the rooms sparkled central location and easy to navigate the city, I loved the Kaiseki dinner at the Japanese restaraunt on the 6th floor excellent but expensive, each dish a work of art.

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