Hotel Keihan Kyoto Ekiminami

Very nice place to stay! Thank you for everything ! Friendly staff, good breakfast that was included in our room! Check in and check out process was smooth! Room service was completed every day! Thank you! We will be back! Located close to a 7/11 and the Kyoto train station!

Giving it 5 stars for the location and convenience as it is right in front of Kyoto station. We were three and got a triple room. Room is more spacious and single beds were bigger than where we stayed in Tokyo before but still not enough to open three suitcases if ever each of us brought one. It’s a good thing we decided to use just one suitcase and left it at our base hotel in Osaka. Receptionist were welcoming during check in and provided us with umbrellas on the day it rained. Amenities were provided including sleepwear in the room and a communal self service area for other toiletries, instant coffee, and tea. There’s also a welcome drink from 3p-10p but we werent able to avail of it.

This hotel is truly wonderful, boasting an excellent location. The front desk and housekeeping staff were exceptionally friendly, and the breakfast experience was delightful, though the dining area felt slightly compact due to the high number of guests. The only drawback was the laundry facility, particularly the dryers. To efficiently dry 6 kg of clothing, I used two separate machines, running each for 80 minutes plus an additional 90 minutes—a total of 170 minutes. Despite the hotel’s rate of 100 yen per 10 minutes, the clothes remained damp. On a previous occasion, I spent 2,000 yen with a similar result. Ultimately, I found myself carrying wet laundry to an external laundromat early in the morning around 7 AM to ensure they were properly dried. I sincerely hope the hotel management will take this matter into consideration by regularly maintaining or upgrading the machines to enhance guests’ convenience. That being said, this minor inconvenience does not overshadow the hotel’s overall excellence. For those who do not require laundry services, this remains a highly recommended place to stay. Attached are photos documenting my payments for the dryers. Having personally experienced the issue, I must note that the drying costs are rather steep—even by U.S. standards—yet the machines failed to deliver effective results, likely due to insufficient power.