Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto
Nijo, central Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Photo: Hotel The Mitsui Kyoto Press image
A 161-room hotel on the Mitsui family's former Kyoto estate opposite Nijo Castle, with a large thermal spring spa.
- Open
- Opened November 2020
Why we recommend it
The Mitsui offers what most central Kyoto hotels cannot: a natural hot spring on site, with a spa built around it. The setting has real history, entered through a gate three centuries old, and the design team is among the strongest assembled for a Japanese hotel.
The location beside Nijo Castle suits travellers who want the centre of the city rather than the temple lanes of Higashiyama. For the comparison, see Kyoto's decade of new hotels; the opening is covered in our 2020 article.
Location
The hotel is in central Kyoto, directly opposite Nijo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
