Ishicho

Property class: 4
City-center ryokan within easy reach of Pontocho Alley

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Ishicho puts you in a great location, within a 15-minute walk of Pontocho Alley and Kawaramachi Street. Also, Kyoto Imperial Palace and Nishiki Market are just a 5-minute drive away. Fellow travelers say great things about the helpful staff. The property is just a short walk to public transportation: Shiyakusho-mae Station is 7 minutes and Sanjo Keihan Station is 13 minutes.
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Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Parking available
  • Free WiFi
  • Air conditioning
  • Laundry facilities
  • 24/7 front desk

Room options

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A variety of dishes arranged on a table, including sushi, sashimi, and a bowl of soup.

Oyado Ishicho Tower - Japanese Room

8.8 out of 10
Excellent
(9 reviews)
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 5
  • 4 Twin Futons

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A variety of dishes arranged on a table, including sushi, sashimi, and a bowl of soup.

Ishicho Shogikuen Tower - Japanese Room

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful
(5 reviews)
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 4 Twin Futons

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About the neighborhood

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Kawaramachi Dori Takeya Higashi Iru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, 604-0901

What's nearby

  • Kawaramachi Street - 1 min walk - 0.2 km
  • Kiyamachi Street - 3 min walk - 0.3 km
  • Pontocho Alley - 11 min walk - 0.9 km
  • Kyoto Imperial Palace - 15 min walk - 1.3 km
  • Nishiki Market - 18 min walk - 1.5 km

Getting around

  • Itami Airport (ITM) - 69 min drive
  • Kansai Intl. Airport (KIX) - 112 min drive
  • Jingu-marutamachi Station - 6 min walk
  • Sanjo Station - 12 min walk
  • Kyoto Kawaramachi Station - 18 min walk
  • Shiyakusho-mae Station - 7 min walk
  • Sanjo Keihan Station - 13 min walk
  • Marutamachi Station - 14 min walk

Restaurants

  • ‪SCHOOL BUS COFFEE STOP KYOTO - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪たけむら - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪水暉 - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪House of KI NO BI - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪パクチー丸太町 - ‬4 min walk

About this property

Ishicho

  • Ishicho puts you in a great location, within a 15-minute walk of Pontocho Alley and Kawaramachi Street. Also, Kyoto Imperial Palace and Nishiki Market are just a 5-minute drive away. Fellow travelers say great things about the helpful staff. The property is just a short walk to public transportation: Shiyakusho-mae Station is 7 minutes and Sanjo Keihan Station is 13 minutes.

At a glance

CHECK-IN
3:00pm
CHECK-OUT
10:00am

Hotel size

    • 112 rooms

Arriving/Leaving

    • Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
    • Check-out time is 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

    • Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
    • This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
    • For any questions, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation
    • Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Required at check-in

    • Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
    • Government-issued photo ID may be required

Children

    • No cribs (infant beds)

Pets

    • Pets not allowed
    • Service animals welcome

Internet

    • Free WiFi in public areas
    • Free WiFi in rooms

Parking

    • Uncovered onsite self parking (JPY 1000 per night)
    • Uncovered onsite extended parking (JPY 1000 per night)
    • Onsite parking limited
    • Height restrictions apply for onsite parking

Other information

    • Designated smoking areas

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Reviews

Ishicho Reviews

8.4

Very Good

8.6

Cleanliness

8.0

Location

8.4

Staff & service

8.0

Property conditions & facilities

Guest review summary

What guests liked

  • Breakfast was consistently described as delicious, great, and amazing with various options. (8 reviews)
  • The hotel's traditional breakfast, buffet, and Japanese dinner options were greatly enjoyed by guests. (4 reviews)
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10/10 Exceptional

Loved the traditional Japanese ambience. Room was clean. Staff was friendly and helpful. Location was good; close to bus stop. Walking distance to shopping and restaurants. Onsen was great!
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8/10 Very good

Old hotel but great traditional experience with very nice stuff and convenient location. We liked the Japanese dinner
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10/10 Exceptional

Central of Kyoto, very clean
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10/10 Exceptional

This hotel was a nice traditional experience in Kyoto. Foreigner friendly, wonderful staff, fun experience.
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10/10 Exceptional

Thank you Ishicho for making my stay in Kyoto so memorable. Loved our tatami room, the impressive and traditional breakfast buffet, and all staff were kind and helpful. Highlight for me was their bathhouse, such a relaxing experience.
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10/10 Exceptional

The property was very clean and in a good location. The room was just enough space for my sister and I.
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10/10 Exceptional

Hotel staff was very accommodating in storing our luggage before our checkout time.
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10/10 Exceptional

This was an awesome place to stay. I had never stayed in a traditional ryokan before, but the room, meals, and service here far surpassed my expectations. The room was very clean and I got the best night’s sleep of my life. The history of the hotel is also neat. I would recommend getting the breakfast and dinner at least once during your stay.
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10/10 Exceptional

The ryokan hotel is OUTSTANDING. The staff is SUPER NICE and so so SOOOOOOO helpful. We loved our room, it was really clean, the onsen area was really wonderful too. All outstanding.
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8/10 Very good

Large room in friendly ryokan.

Lovely hotel in good location very close to river, imperial palace and markets. Good access to subway. Room was clean and large. Toilet a bit musty in smell.
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10/10 Exceptional

I enjoyed my stay. This hotels maintains a local vibe and look which I appreciated for my first stay at Kyoto. The breakfast was amazing! Great options and delicious The rooms have great space and traditional look. The futons where comfortable enough to sleep well and I like how organize and label everything was. There was a humidifier in room, a nice touch. The staff were helpful to provide with bakery recommendations and maps.
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8/10 Very good

Theres onsen included in the facility to relax on. However, it is shared bath so expect to be comfortably naked around others. The only gripe is the shared laundry machine with the neighbouring building
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10/10 Exceptional

I like the atmosphere of the hotel and the staff were very helpful. I chose this place because of ryokan style. This is 2 thumbs up and 5 star rating for me. If i will be back to kyoto, i will book it again to this hotel. Cheers!
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8/10 Very good

Spacious room with friendly staff. Misunderstanding with the parking as it is advertised as free on Expedia and instead we were asked for payment (that we refused to pay…)
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10/10 Exceptional

Perfection in Kyoto

Fantastic! Beautiful traditional rooms,lovely clean onsen, kimono to wear, Incredible very traditional Japanese breakfast. If you are a foreigner and seek an authentic Japanese place to go , this the place. The staff was wonderfully friendly and accommodating. I cannot rave enough about this place!!! Oh, and it was quiet, quiet quiet With a beautiful Zen garden off of our room.
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8/10 Very good

Good Japanese room

I chose this hotel because it offered a Japanese style room. The room was good, I liked it. Onsen was good, amenities like in any other hotel. The hotel itself is a bit worn out, feels built in the end of 1960-ies and has stayed that way since. I was during the very high sakura season, therefore the hotel was overpriced.
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4/10 Fair

Thank hotel’s staff since they were very friendly and nice. However the facility is not too clean. Unpleasant smell was found in elevator and hotel toilet room, and toilet is not fully functional.
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10/10 Exceptional

Me and a friend stayed for two nights as we wanted to explore areas of the Kansai region. It was such a nice experience! We didn’t end up trying the public baths, so I can’t comment on that, but the room itself and the futons were great ^^ When I think walkable, it may be different to someone else’s walkable, but transport (bus) is okay to get around— it is pretty busy though so take at your own caution if you have a large suitcase. The area is great! We wish we had more time but from what we walked and visited, it was nice. There’s a gachapon place nearby and multiple drug stores and places to eat. Overall, great experience! And for the price, definitely worth it.
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10/10 Exceptional

Nice area.. room is comfortable and big for three people… the traditional breakfast and Buffett breakfast was great..Keiseki dinner was new experienced for us and we enjoyed it. Housekeeping come morning and evening to set up our room Hotel has only total of 2 washers/dryers.. hard to get turn washing/drying your clothes. Hallways smells smoke.. not sure if they allow smoking in the room Overall, great stay!
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10/10 Exceptional

If you are looking for a true experience of Japanese culture you pick this hotel right now. But do remember to make some research about Japanese lifestyle in a washitsu room before coming ;) Staff all speak good English. Very helpful and polite. Price stable throughout the year and the room size is just ideal compared with the 12-15sqm rooms offer by other hotels in the similar area at a similar price. Close to subway and bus stations, traffic is good, some tourist sites like the Royal Garden and Nijo Cho are even within walking distance. Close to Sanjo and Gion too. Nonetheless very quite since it's not right next to the mainstreet. There is a FamilyMart 2min's walk away. Room facility: appliances are new and are not cheap ones, furniture is older but in perfect condition.
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10/10 Exceptional

We had an excellent stay at Ishicho. Our suite had one large room for sleeping and hanging out, a narrow balcony, a toilet room, and a room with a tub and shower. It was very quiet. I had read a few reviews before our stay and had been a little nervous about a few things. I wanted to address some of those things for other people who are considering staying. First, someone had left the review that the staff was not friendly and did not speak English. The staff was extremely kind and helpful, very attentive, and everyone spoke enough English to get things done. The staff was great! Another review said that there was a weird smell in the bathtub. When we first arrived, there was a strange smell in the room with the bath, but we think it is a cleaning product as we smelled it at both the apartment we rented and the hotel we stayed at in Tokyo. It dissipated the first day and the bathtub and shower were very very clean. Some reviews say that it is a bit run down - the facility feels older, but it doesn’t feel like a bad thing; everything is very clean and very well-tended. The futons are a bit thin, which might be uncomfortable if you are not used to sleeping in the floor. The pillows are the usual for Japan - small and flat. I would say that sleeping in Japan in general is less comfortable than sleeping in a hotel elsewhere… so no matter where you stay, you can expect to want a better pillow and a softer bed. ;) The ryokan breakfast is very nice!
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8/10 Very good

One person in our group wanted to experience a traditional Japanese stay so we stayed one night. It was like sleeping on the floor. But they supply you with kimono and everything else to make it a true Japanese experience.
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10/10 Exceptional

If you want to experience a traditional tatami room and ambiance it's the place to be . Close central area of Kyoto in a very relaxing area !
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2/10 Poor

The smell is
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10/10 Exceptional

Staying at Ishicho was a great experience! The staff were incredibly friendly and the room and onsen were very nice! I would definitely recommend staying here.