Kyoto Ryokan Hirashin

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Excellent breakfast

A bit of mould around the shower fan.

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.

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.