With 986 rooms in two wings (the Main Building, and the newer South Wing) the hotel is Kyoto's largest hotel, and one of its most convenient and practical ones. The hotel's 3 restaurants, a café, lounge and bar, are complemented by a wide range of restaurants and a department store in the spectacular new Kyoto Station complex opposite.
Its location 2 minutes walk from the Hachijo Exit on the south side of Kyoto Station, mean this hotel is less than 5 minutes walk from the Bullet Train platform, and an ideally convenient base in Kyoto. Within walking distance of the Honganji Temples, the hotel is also just a 5 minute walk from the Kyoto Station Bus Terminal from where a cheap and regular local bus service fans out across the city giving easy access to every major sightseeing attraction in Kyoto.
Public Transport:|2 minutes on foot from the Hachijo (South) Exit of JR Kyoto Station, offering rail access to Nara, Osaka and|Kansai Airport, and Bullet Train access to Tokyo and Hiroshima.|Also, 5 minutes on foot from Kyoto Station bus terminal offering low-cost access to all of the city's major sites.|Road:|5 kms (15 minutes) from the Kyoto-Minami interchange on the Meishin Expressway.|From/to Kansai Airport:|Coach service (approximately once an hour, duration 100 mins.) between airport and Kyoto Station.|Express train service ('Haruka' Express - 75 minutes one-way) between airport and Kyoto Station |
