Houka

Location: Shimogyo-ku, Nishimatsuya-cho 567, Kyoto, jp

Star Rating: 4 Stars

Property Type: Holiday homes

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 03:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Check-out: 10:00 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Non-smoking rooms
• Air conditioning
• Safety deposit box
• Non-smoking throughout
• Private check-in/check-out
• Concierge service
• Fire extinguishers
• Smoke alarms
• Security alarm
• Free wired internet
• Internet access
• Japanese garden

Rooms Available

• Two Bedroom Townhouse East

  The air-conditioned holiday home has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with a bath and a shower. In the fully equipped kitchen, guests will find a stovetop, a refrigerator, kitchenware and a microwave. The holiday home features a flat-screen TV, a washing machine, a tea and coffee maker, a seating area as well as garden views. The unit has 2 beds and 4 futons.

  Max Occupancy: 5 (5 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Seating Area
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Washing machine
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Kitchen
  • Sofa
  • Alarm clock
  • Dining area
  • Electric kettle
  • Tumble dryer
  • Wardrobe or closet
  • Stovetop
  • Toaster
  • Bidet
  • Coffee machine
  • Dining table
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Drying rack for clothing
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Trash cans
  • Wine glasses
  • Shampoo
  • Conditioner
  • Body soap
  • Pajamas
  • Socket near the bed
  • Feather pillow
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key card access

• Three-Bedroom Townhouse West

  The air-conditioned holiday home features 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with a bath and a shower. The holiday home's kitchenette, which has a refrigerator and a microwave, is available for cooking and storing food. The holiday home offers a flat-screen TV, a washing machine, a tea and coffee maker, a seating area as well as garden views. The unit offers 2 beds and 6 futons.

  Max Occupancy: 6 (6 Adults)

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Shower
  • Safety deposit box
  • TV
  • Air conditioning
  • Hair dryer
  • Kitchenette
  • Refrigerator
  • Seating Area
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Washing machine
  • Private bathroom
  • Heating
  • Sofa
  • Alarm clock
  • Dining area
  • Electric kettle
  • Tumble dryer
  • Wardrobe or closet
  • Bidet
  • Coffee machine
  • Dining table
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Drying rack for clothing
  • Toilet paper
  • Bottle of water
  • Trash cans
  • Wine glasses
  • Shampoo
  • Conditioner
  • Body soap
  • Pajamas
  • Socket near the bed
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key card access

Guest Reviews

• Christopher (10/5): -
• Marjory (10/5): Lovely spot in a quiet lane near to everything you need. A wonderful character filled traditional h -
• Zion (10/5): -
• Ylva Elisabet Bosdotter (9/5): Toppen boende - Mysigt och genuint
• Paul (10/5): Couldn't imagine anywhere better to stay in Kyoto! - Houka East is a gem. We had a wonderful stay at this authentic Japanese home. Plenty of room for 3 adults, and all the amenities you could ask for. The beds were extremely comfortable. Perfect location in a quiet neighborhood, close to train stations, grocery store, pharmacy, and lots of good restaurants. Would definitely stay here again. N/A
• Ai (10/5): Excellent! -
• Rika (10/5): もっと泊まりたかった！ - 寒い時期でしたので、入室した時に暖かくてとてもありがたかったです。 玄関の石まで温かいのには驚きました。 質問や急な要望にもすぐに対応していただけてありがたかったです。 特にありません。
• Susana Oliveira (10/5): Super recommend! Is a must! - Everything was great! It was the best place we stayed in Japan! The house was very traditional but with all the technologies and commodities needed. The futons were very comfortable, the shower was heavenly and it was the best and coziest return home every day while we were there. Even the floors were heated! Super recommend We didn't want to leave that house, so everything was great
• Chris (10/5): Great place to stay in Kyoto - A comfortable place to stay.
• Natalia (9/5): -
• Jesse (10/5): Wow! - Wow! Was our reaction when we first walk in, all throughout our stay and as we explored the home. Our only regret was not staying a couple extra days in Kyoto, just to enjoy this place a little more. It was such a beautiful and peaceful place to stay and made our Kyoto visit even more special. Houka West, we shall meet again. For anyone looking for places to stay at in Kyoto, if this place is available during your stay, don’t even think twice about it and book it! You won’t regret it!
• Sydney (10/5): We had a wonderful stay! - Beautiful space. Clean, comfortable and lots of amenities. Very close to the station but in a quiet neighborhood. .
• 心慧 (8/5): -
• Lin (7/5): 期待しすぎていたのか、少し物足りなさを感じました。 - まず、東本願寺と西本願寺の間に位置していて、 歩いて行ける距離なので朝に散歩がてら行けるのが良かったです。 宿自体は京都を感じられてすごく素敵な宿だったと思います。 一階と二階にトイレがあるのも良かったです。 キッチンもついてるので京野菜を使ってご飯を作ったりできます。 洗濯機もあるので少ない荷物で泊まることも可能だと思いました。 近くに行列が出来るほど人気なつけ麺屋さんがあって、並びましたがすごく美味しかったので並んだ甲斐がありました。 狭い路地に入ったとこに宿があります。 京都駅から宿までタクシーを利用しましたが、狭い路地ということを知らなかったため、タクシー運転手にすごいため息をつかれました。路地の一本外側の広い道路で降ろしてもらうことをお勧めします。 宿は建物が古いのもあり、歩くたびに床がきしみ、吹き抜けになっているので音も余計に響きます。 玄関をきちんと閉めないと鍵がかかっていても若干の隙間が出来て外が見えます。 扉関係は滑りが良いわけではないので少しテクニックが必要です。 玄関側の窓はすりガラスになっていますが、カーテンが付いてないので、外の人影が気になりました。 音も響くので、外を歩く人の足音や話し声も丸聞こえでした。そのため宿の中での会話やテレビの音も外に聞こえていたんじゃないかと思います。 ベット近くにコンセント有りと記載がありましたが、実際には足元の方にありました。 アメニティは必要最低限のものが置いてある印象でした。 置いてあったのに気付かなかっただけなら申し訳ないですが、 入浴剤があったら嬉しいなと思いました。
• Liliana (9/5): Great stay in a beautiful and traditional Kyoto house - Very nicely restored machyia house in a convenient location. Very professional, polite and welcoming staff. Some places need more cleaning (visible dust on shelves), tatami in the bedroom downstairs had a bit unpleasant smell in the corner.
• alper (9/5): Excellent! - Location, concept of the house, cleanliness Lightening of the leaving room
• Sandra (10/5): An authentic and unforgettable stay in Kyoto, full of charm and comfort. - Staying here was truly unforgettable! The house is full of authentic Kyoto charm, beautifully maintained, and gives you the feeling of stepping back in time while still enjoying modern comfort. The atmosphere is peaceful and warm, with incredible attention to detail everywhere. The location is perfect for exploring the city yet quiet enough to fully relax.
• Remi (10/5): Best stay for our family of 5 - Lovely traditional Machiya with a very thoughtful design It was perfect 🫶
• Stefan (10/5): Top stay in Kyoto - Very authentic feeling during our 4 nights stays in Tokyo. Good communication, easy initial access to acommodation. Clear recommendation. Clean, except visible dust in shelves and roof beams.
• Andrew (10/5): Great accom, super comfortable in a traditional style.great location - Very comfortable, great location and good air conditioning for the hot months. Needs some bowls for breakfast, otherwise was fine.
• Simran (10/5): Excellent experience of a traditional Japanese home! - The property gives you a complete experience of a traditional Japanese home! There were a-lot of amenities! Which was great! There was a washing machine that we used. No dryer! So we hang dried them upstairs in the loft. Which worked well!! Overall we were happy! The shampoo and conditioner were excellent! The only thing I wished they had a full kitchen. That way we could manage our breakfast!!!
• Wojahn (10/5): Kyoto home with history, beauty and great location - We loved everything about the house, especially the artwork and the homes location. It was perfect for the four of us. We would definitely recommend this home. I honestly can't think of anything. It was perfect for us
• Eric (10/5): Exceptional -
• Emily (9/5): Superb -
• Lisa (10/5): Exceptional -
• John (9/5): Superb - EVERYTHING IT WILL BE PERFECT IF THERE'S A BATHROOM UPSTAIRS, CHEERS 😄
• Simone (9/5): Superb -
• Gregory (9/5): Lovely property - Great location, roomy and stylish. The heating was too hot and the kitchen was just a microwave and sink so not ideal for self catering.
• Winson (8/5): Very good - Traditional Japanese house, let you feel Japanese style of living.
• Nicole (9/5): Superb -
• Jay (8/5): A value for money property. Space is good for families if you don't mind walking - really nice facilities and this is just a normal townhouse with aged walls and structures. don't expect this to be a full service hotel. it was cold in Kyoto so the staff was able to warm the house up before our check in. they even have a Nespresso machine and pods! the hotel staff explained all the procedures and even gave advice on how to take the buses like a local. check in process was abit harder than the rest with the extra payment of the accomodation tax on the day of checkin. having to deal with passports and re-sending details made it less convenient tv was abit dated? only could watch japanese free to air. couldn't connect via WiFi to tv for screen casting location was further than expected walking from Kyoto station. but the good thing was that there were alternative buses to the various tourist attractions that we could take instead of taking the train all the time. the beam at the only showering facility on level 1...is the one that I can't change. hit my head a couple of times going in or out even after I've looked down. I'm 1.83m tall so the beams were all pretty low to me
• Averyll (9/5): Superb -
• Amber (10/5): Luxury and sensibility. Exceeded our expectations. - Amazing! Great amenities. Fabulous bath. Probably my favorite place to stay, I wish we had spent more days there. Great instructions for how to use appliances so that was nice not to have to google translate everything. They provided alot of resources and maps and such. Super comfy bed. So much room. Ugh! Loved this place. Would totally stay here again! N/a
• Krzysztof (10/5): Nice traditional Japanese style house - It was a lovely stay in traditional Japanese style house. The house is very well equipped with instructions in English which is not that obvious in Japan. We had one small issues with getting to the house but it was quite efficiently solved.
• Keith (10/5): Exceptional -
• Mandy (9/5): One of the highlights of our stay in Kyoto! - The house itself and the interior are beautiful, appliances are modern and comfortable in use, location is excellent, intructions were very clear, staff who welcomed us was friendly and very helpful, bedding was great! Overall a fantastic stay! Everyone in our group was blown away with the beauty and comfort of this house, would recommend! Although everything in use was very clean (bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, etc.), some of the open cabinets and architectural features were a little dusty which did impact the scent of the house somewhat (but kind of adds to the authentic feeling in a way also?) Also a tip: if you really tried, it was technically possible to see into the bathroom from the dining room. It would be nice to have some sort of option for privacy in the bathroom, like blinds to cover the window. It was not a major issue though. Again, you would have had to really try and see into the bathroom.
• David (9/5): Great location, nice Japanese renovated home - Rooms were very nice and location was fantastic. Shower room was very nice and the small garden very relaxing to watch. Check in was difficult because app they use to check in doesnt work properly. There were a couple of difficulties with the app during check in, not just one and we had to call for assistance. Also, the place is still a little dusty even after the cleaning person came by - especially under beds, walkways, etc.
• Phill (9/5): Loving traditional home, that was both large and comfortable - Traditional Japanese living. Comfortably fit a family of 5. Close to cute restaurants Couldn’t steam phone to TV
• Olimpia (10/5): Amasing. - Fantastic. The most beautiful apartment during our 2-week stay. Perfectly clean, beautiful interior design. The optional breakfast was brilliant. The staff was kind and helpful.
• Pearl (9/5): Good place to stay for family with kids :) - Very convenient, very homely . Good place for the family with kids . We had a great time there . Just be careful the check out time is 10:00 , not 12:00 . If you have a lot of luggages, you may be a little bit suffering
• James (10/5): Exceptional -
• Mark (9/5): We enjoyed our stay in this lovely accommodation. - Beautiful house, l really liked the traditional Style. It would have been good to have the third bedroom made up for our arrival.
• Zoe (10/5): Exceptional -
• Andersson (10/5): Exceptional -
• Borden (10/5): Wonderful stay! We will definitely be back! - Property was fantastic! Great location and the house itself was beautiful! The staff went out of there way to help and make us feel comfortable. Zero
• Kim (10/5): 500% would go again -
• Gerald (9/5): Superb - Excellent traditional home experience.
• Jeff (10/5): Exceptional -
• Roopali (10/5): Exceptional -
• Joe (10/5): Blissful - Everything and a great staff! I lost my wallet in a taxi. Within hours the police and the staff tracked it down for me. They helped till midnight. Awesome. The property is Machiya house. So, what more can you praise? The check-in office location in English google map is wrong. Also the check-in office may have an English sign board outside the building. The google map link given open a Japanese version of google map, so, it took a while to figure the location. We walked to the office.
• Miryam (9/5): Superb - Beautiful House. Near the station . They were very kind waiting for our arrival although we were late for the check in. The matrass on the flor was not as confortable as we tough, and we missed some place for cooking
• Chong (9/5): Overall, very well kept, clean and spacious unit for four. Washing machine cum dryer was handy - Room lighting was dim and not bright enough for me.
• Deborah (10/5): Beautiful old home in a perfect location - We had the entire house to ourselves and the location was perfect. We all loved the shower and soaking tub as well as the wonderful authenticity of an old home with modern upgrades. Heat was controlled by a remote that was in Japanese which we didn’t understand, but to be fair, we were staying in a home in Japan.
• Amie (10/5): Great place - The whole place is great for a small group or two couples. Loved the layout, look, and really enjoyed the table area with the Zen garden. It's closely located to the Kyoto station and good places around to eat - but they are always busy so be early or make a booking! Nothing!
• Nick (8/5): excellent place woudl recommedn - a little bit tricky to find the office to collect the keys the map on Booking.com was wrong
• Steley (9/5): Apart from the arrival process, it was a very pleasant stay. - Comfortable house. Convenient location. Helpful staff. Obtaining keys was difficult. The process needs to be made a lot easier. We showed the address for key pick up to a taxi driver at the train station and he left us in a remote laneway. Thankfully we were rescued by the very helpful Houka reception manager, who picked us up and took us directly to the house.
• Amal (10/5): Exceptional -
• Xi (9/5): Superb -
• Swe (9/5): Superb - Great place for family and friends. Love the dinning room! Authentic Japanese home with traditional & modern amenities. The staff were very helpful & friendly. Check-out time is too early. It would be 11:00 !!
• Nomad61610541355 (10/5): A central Kyoto exquisitely designed ryokan style house with modern equipment inside - It’s rare to see and enjoy a property more beautiful than what it promises to be online but it was the case. The only downside is you have to checkin in a separate place 5 minutes away and open only during day business hours (6 pm max). Basically it’s a two floor house carefully and beautifully arranged in traditional ryokan style with excellent amenities including a very small but lovely garden and a symbolic stone path separating the bathroom from the living room on the ground floor. The 2 bedrooms are upstairs 1 Western style the other Japanese style. Everything is cased in rustic dark unvarnished Japanese wood
• Deborah (8/5): Very good -
• Julien (9/5): Superb -
• Ji-young (10/5): Very nice place to stay - Very clean and nice room
• Nalart (8/5): Great experiences...will be back.. - Authentic Japanese style home with updated appliances. Instructions in english such as washing machine and shower/hot tubs
• Roger (10/5): Wonderful house and a must stay in Kyoto! - A must stay and we will stay here again. This was the best place we stayed in Japan. It was great for our family of six and we had plenty of room. The remodel of this traditional home was nicely done with traditional and modern amenities. The staff at checkin were so friendly and helped us find it as the checkin and house are in different locations. Perfectly located on a quiet street but close to bus stops. Extremely clean and new. Not a single thing we didn’t like.
• Huijing (8/5): Very good - traditional house, toys for my daughter to keep her occupied the bathroom can be seen from the living room
• Akiko (10/5): Exceptional -
• Ken (10/5): This is a great place for 4 to 6 adults, with some young kids - Excellent service by staff. Almost hotel like level of attention, and much better than any airbnb place I’ve stayed at in Japan
• Nahum (9/5): Superb - Nice service 5 min walk with bags and kids ...
• Kylie (10/5): Exceptional -
• Krystal (10/5): We LOVED it! We plan to come back for sure - The hosts were very helpful! we are so grateful that they were able to help us with retrieving my mothers passport and purse that were left in a taxi. They also went above and beyond, helping us with our luggage transport service since we were unable to do the forms ourselves. We are absolutely coming back! Thank you soooooo much!! They have a qr code to scan to communicate with them on mobile, but we had a lot of issues with the chat system. I like that it translated for us, however it kept starting new chats when we were in the middle of really important conversations. Sometimes the chat window would close on it's own and it was difficult to restart the chat.
• Gerd (10/5): authentic, nice stay! we had a great time! - Beautiful house, nice authentic vibe, we enjoyed our stay, helpful and kind staff!
• Linda (10/5): Exceptional -
• Hou (9/5): Superb - Staff were very helpful.tried their best to help in any way possible. House is very clean and lots of amenities provided so it's very easy and convenient. Beautifully designed with a touch of modern feel. Great for family. The inhouse chat system wasn't stable so can't make use of it. The walls were rather thin so can cut the noise much. Journey to accommodation is rather tough if one had big luggage because of narrow walkway and rough road surface. Would be perfect with 2 bathrooms
• Jiawen (10/5): Modern Japanese Homestay in Kyoto - Great layout for a group of family. We love to gather in the common room after baby slept to have a glass of sake. Very modern zen Japanese style, spacious room, spotlessly clean. Only one bathroom to share so take some time for everyone to get ready. Check in was a bit of hassle but we got to it eventually, communication was difficult as there is language barrier.
• Verified traveler (8/5): - Quiet and spacious
• Verified traveler (10/5): - Excellent!!
• Verified traveler (10/5): - Charming, spacious, comfortable, attractive accommodation. Off the beaten path so taxis were sometimes unsure how to find even with the excellent directions provided by Houka staff...nevertheless would still be our first choice in Kyoto. We loved it. Totally up to date. Concierge service through the provided mobile device was helpful and immediately responded. Quiet. Conveniently located for transport. 👍👍👍. Delightful check in experience. Felt like a typical Japanese home. Top marks on all fronts. So pleased we found this gem.
• Alexontheroad1964 (10/5): Thank you so much 😊 - Houka was for myself and also for my family our favorite place in our 3 weeks holidays in Japan. The very kind and professional atención with the team and the owner was our first coming home experience. Beautiful private house on two floors and really warm welcome with tea and good tips what to do. They was so helpful with our late coming luggage with the transport company. Best beds,bathroom amazing with view to a little Japanese garden. Tradicional Japanese breakfast for us was the best way to start the day. We are sure that everyone who loves the culture and the city of Kyoto will find in Houka the peace and happiness.
• Hongying (10/5): - 保存了老房子的格調， 重新裝潢后讓生活方便并舒適， 除了廚房稍小，其他一應用具齊全且高級和好用。雖說在深巷中， 可離旁邊一條通車的街道較近， 其中一個房間還是難免會被車聲叨擾。

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