Four Seasons Hotel Osaka
A 175-room hotel on the upper floors of the One Dojima tower in central Osaka, with a floor of 21 tatami rooms run as a contemporary ryokan.
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Banyan Tree Higashiyama Kyoto
A 52-room hotel by Kengo Kuma on a wooded hillside in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, with a natural hot spring and an open-air Noh stage.
Imperial Hotel, Kyoto
A 55-room hotel in Yasaka Kaikan, a 1936 landmark inside Kyoto’s Gion geiko quarter, operated by Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel company.
Ace Hotel Kyoto
A 213-room design hotel in the Shin-Puh-Kan complex in central Kyoto, combining a 1926 brick telephone exchange with a new wing by Kengo Kuma.
Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto
A 161-room Luxury Collection hotel opposite Nijo Castle in central Kyoto, on the former residence of the Mitsui family, with its own thermal spring.
Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto
A Four Seasons in Kyoto’s Higashiyama temple district, built around Shakusui-en, a pond garden dating from the 12th century.
Capella Kyoto
An 89-room hotel by Kengo Kuma in Miyagawa-cho, one of Kyoto’s five geiko districts, sharing its block with a restored geiko theatre.
Six Senses Kyoto
An 81-room urban Six Senses beside Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, the brand’s first hotel in Japan.
Park Hyatt Kyoto
A low-rise, 70-room Park Hyatt beside Kodai-ji temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama district, built around a ryotei founded in 1877.
Aman Kyoto
A 26-room Aman resort set in a 32-hectare forest estate in the north of Kyoto, within walking distance of Kinkaku-ji.