A hotel brand in Japan
Prince Hotels
Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide, the hotel company of the Seibu railway group, runs hotels across Japan and abroad under names such as The Prince, Grand Prince Hotel and Prince Hotel.
Our two, The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu and the ryokan Sanyo-so, are its luxury end, run as independent hotels without the Prince name on the door.
- Places to stay
- 2
- Ryokans among them
- 1
- With a hot spring in every room
- 1
What they share
- Each is in a pre-war building: a 1933 school and a 1929 villa
- Children of all ages are welcome
- All rooms are non-smoking
How to choose
For Kyoto
The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu: a 1933 primary school on the slope below Kiyomizu-dera
For a hot spring
Sanyo-so: a free-flowing hot-spring bath in every room, in a Mitsubishi family villa garden
1 hotel, 1 ryokan
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Q&A
Both are run by Seibu Prince Hotels, and they are its luxury end, but neither carries the Prince name; the company lists them as independent hotels. The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu is a city hotel in Higashiyama, and Sanyo-so a ryokan at Izu-Nagaoka Onsen.
No; rooms have Western bathrooms, and there are three private bathrooms that guests can book. For a hot spring, Sanyo-so has one in every room and men's and women's baths.
A ryokan at Izu-Nagaoka Onsen built around the 1929 villa of Hisaya Iwasaki of the Mitsubishi family, opened as an inn in 1947. Its main building is a registered Tangible Cultural Property, in a garden by Jihei Ogawa.