Kyoto Kamanza Hotel

We are older, independent travelers. Our expectations are for a quiet room in a good location and we are not interested in extraneous services. We stayed six nights in early May. The Kyoto Kamanza Hotel is in a wonderful location. It is on a quiet street in a nice Kyoto neighborhood. There are many small shops and restaurants nearby. We especially liked the Flip Up bakery just around the corner on Oshikoji-Dori where we went every day for croissants and pastries. It is also easy walking distance to the Karasuma-Oike subway station, the Nijo Castle, the Imperial Palace and the bus lines on Marutamachi-Dori. There was also a coin-op launderette on Karasuma that was within five minutes walk. So great to be on a quiet street in a real neighborhood, but at the same time be connected to the larger city. The hotel itself is lovely. It is small, newly built and very clean. We were told that the front desk might not be staffed during our stay, but someone was almost always there during the day and we were able to easily arrange leaving our luggage for a few hours on our last day in Kyoto. The room was spacious and the bath was fantastic with the toilet separate from the shower and large soaking tub. The air conditioning worked well. We never heard any of our neighbors.

We had no complaints whatsoever.

Wow. We loved this hotel. After the crowds and noise of Tokyo, we were happy to stay at this hotel which is in a quiet residential neighborhood. This is a very small hotel with 10 rooms. We were given a very large room (suite 203). I have not seen the other rooms but they were smaller. Our room had 2 large beds, a sitting area, a very large bathroom, 2 sinks, large counter, large shower (wet room) and a separate toilet. The beds were very comfortable (our best in Japan), the drapes were opaque allowing for darkness in the room in the morning. Even if this hotel is in a quiet area, we had easy direct access to many tourist places (Arashiyama, golden temple, Fushimi Irani, Nara, etc) by bus or metro with just a few minutes walking. The area also has restaurants, grocery, convenient store within a few minutes walk. Hotel was able to receive and send our luggage with Yamoto. We stayed 8 days as we used this hotel as our base to visit Kyoto and surrounding areas. Thank you so much for such a great stay.

This room was great value for money! Our beds were incredibly comfortable with two pillows to choose from (one softer, one harder) and the bathroom had everything you could need: shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, body lotions, hair dryer etc Staff was friendly too and everything very clean!

Great location, friendly staff, nice room. Great value for the money! Amazing soap and product selection in the bathroom ☺️

Room was very hot and humid as we were in the basement! We needed to run the fan quite a bit.

great location close to pharmacy, convenient stores and public transport. our room is very spacious and lots of amenities in room or on the floor area.

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This hotel is superb. The front desk is not always manned and the rooms aren’t serviced daily, but the staff are very friendly and helpful and can easily be contacted at any time. The rooms are spacious and beautiful - we had a double and a triple right next to each other with plenty of space and amenities available in the hallway. There is no laundry facilities or meals available but they gave a great cheat sheet about local places to eat/ laundry etc. Rooms very comfortable, quiet and aesthetically pleasing decor - very comfortable beds. Thus hotel is best value for comfort and quality in good quiet area of Kyoto. We would definitely stay there again.

Quiet, beautiful room and facilities. Nice amenities.

No problems

A gorgeous and large room. Lovely staff very helpful

hard to know what to do with your rubbish but just a small issue

Excellent new, mid-range boutique hotel (with 10-11 rooms across 3 floors) that was an exceptional value for the price. Nice-sized rooms (for Japan) with plenty of basic amenities and recommendations for the surrounding area. Very comfortable beds, very safe and quiet neighborhood. At check-in (we were able to check in early) the friendly manager (who spoke English reasonably well) used a translation device to make sure we understood everything clearly.

We liked the location but if taking public transportation it is a 6-8 minute walk to nearby bus stops and a 10 minute walk to the nearest subway station. Sometimes we used the Uber app to get a taxi to pick us up at the hotel which was pretty easy. Because this is such a small hotel there is no room service or in-house restaurant, which was fine with us as there were plenty of places nearby.

It is completely understandable as to why this hotel has so many outstanding accolades. The hotel lived up to its billing and was an absolutely wonderful place to stay. The staff were very friendly and made the effort to attend to our needs. The room was spacious, the double bed was big and very comfortable, and the bathroom was how one would expect a bathroom to be. I would recommend this hotel to everyone I know that will be travelling to Kyoto.

If I have to chose something, it would be the automatic light that come on once one goes to the bathroom. I could not figure out a way to turn it off.