Location, price, Onsen

Stayed in January 2025

The nearest subway station is 15 minutes away, otherwise the location is good tho.

Super nice staff, big and comfortable room, great amenities.

Stayed in July 2024

If you are a gaijin, you gonna have the gaijin room. And Tatami is not perfectly clean because Tatami could not be clean. So alway step with sock or clean shoes. I know that but if it's not said to other tourist, Tatami gonna have dirt. Personnal could explain this to help to keep the room clean.

Typical traditionnal ryokan. The bed is adaptable with second couch if it's too rude. Kimono and tea include.

Stayed in July 2024

The staff is sincerely kind and friendly. The ryokan has a superb location in my opinion. The room was very nice, although the ventilation shaft cover in the bathroom was broken, but that wasn't a big issue for me

Stayed in May 2024

Nothing

Very friendly and helpful staff. Within walking distance of nishiki market.

Stayed in May 2024

I found it a little bit expensive. But still i found it worth it.

Easy to reach, comfy rooms and beds, you really get to feel the japansese way and with the onsen and all.

Stayed in March 2024

The futons were a little thin and hence not the most comfortable night’s sleep. For the room, the rate was over priced. It is Sakura season, but at almost $500 per night for a bare room, the value was lacking.

The front desk staff were lovely and helpful. Excellent location, walking distance from two train stations, the market, convenience stores and restaurants.

Stayed in March 2024

They could improve on cleanliness. We needed to stack several futures ns as they were too thin. Although the photos made this look like a traditional ryokan, it is more a small hotel with Japanese style rooms.

The room was spacious by Japanese standards, especially for the location. The location was excellent. Close to public transport and many interesting tourist attractions and great restaurants.

Stayed in March 2024

A bit of mould around the shower fan.

Excellent breakfast

Stayed in November 2023

Only one card key per room no matter how many people are in there. The late night person just said "Japanese style" no matter what we asked and pretty much just shooed us off but others were very pleasant.

Kyoto Ryokan Hirashin is an older facility located within walking distance to Nishiki Market. It has large tatami rooms and a public furo/bath downstairs. Great experience but if you are not used to the bed on the floor, it may be hard for you. The shikibutons are hard, although I was fine with it. Think of them as exceptionally FIRM. Rooms had own toilet/tub shower. Good experience for the price. We paid for breakfast which was simple and meatless. Hotel let us keep our luggage there after 10:00 checkout so we could run around Kyoto without having to worry about them.

Stayed in October 2023

I didn't receive any communication prior to check-in, despite sending some questions. This was also the only time that my main credit card didn't work in Japan, never found out why.

This is located very close to the local market. We should have booked a couple of nights here due to its location near the bus stop and Nishiki market.

Stayed in September 2023

They could have done a bit of upgrade to the room.Cupboard was falling apart.So was most of the furnitures.Needs to redo the rooms

Location was great.Easy access to Nishiki Market and a few other places.

Stayed in May 2023

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We went there during the busiest time of the year (Sakura) so the prices were a little high for the facilities. The bathroom had a strange smell that was a little off putting.

Perfectly located, very clean Japanese style accommodation. They provided lots of extra bedding and the room was very spacious.

Stayed in March 2023

Cleanliness of the rooms, communication with hotel staff - we had several emails that went unanswered before we arrived. Felt really expensive for what we got.

There was a great breakfast place just across the street that was really the best part of this stay. Hotel seemed old and dirty and past its prime.

Stayed in November 2024

I thought dinner was included and was disappointed that it wasn't. If you're a solo traveller I would recommend somewhere more social.

The room was nice and clean.

Stayed in November 2024

The property was very old which is understandable but very far from what you see in the pictures online. The staff did not speak a word in english which made communication a bit difficult. Overall it was okayish but definitely not worth the money.

Location was good next to Nishiki Market and local restaurants and cafes.

Stayed in November 2024

The place had amazing traditional food

Stayed in August 2024

Old and not very clean

The staff, very polite . Big room

Stayed in July 2023

No post bathing toiletries at the large bath like towels, facial creams, etc Dusty room. Overall old facilities with maintenance needed that gave a feeling of "going out of business" For the price, do not recommend

Stayed in March 2023

Very friendly and helpful staff. Created a very pleasant experience at the hotel. Location was also top notch in the middle of Kyoto with good access to plenty of places to eat and subway stops. Would definitely stay here again.

Stayed in March 2023

outadated and needs a really decent refurbishment. mould in bathrooms, the opposite of what you’d expect from Japanese cleanliness and tidiness. seems very stuck in the past, mid 80’s and not a dollar spent since. futons uncomfortable, staff speak no English, really bad value for money. we spent half as much at hotels that we enjoyed three times more in our 2 weeks holiday. I’d stay somewhere else, or if really seeking a ryokan experience splash out and spend a lot of money on something really high end. this place is not it.

the location wasn’t bad

Stayed in March 2023

Traditional setting. Cleanliness

Stayed in March 2023

I have nothing negative to say ..

amazing ..

Stayed in December 2022