Nanzen-ji, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto南禅寺 八千代
Kyoto Nanzenji Garden Ryokan Yachiyo
Nanzenji Yachiyo is a ryokan on the approach lane to Nanzen-ji temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama, run by its okami Hiroko Nakanishi, with a two-storey wooden main building of 1890 around a garden by Ogawa Jihei and a 1994 annex. The seven garden rooms of the main building have hinoki baths open to the garden, and dinner is served in the inn's garden restaurant.
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About the property
- Rooms
- 16
- Bath in the room
- Some rooms
- Dinner
- In the restaurant
Rooms and suites
Horai
51.07 sq m; 8 tatami with a day bed · garden, first floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath of 1,000 litres opening onto the garden, terrace of Kitayama cedar · bathroom 2017, karakami paper and new tatami 2026. One to three guests.
Ukifune
54.72 sq m; 8 tatami · garden, ground floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath opening onto the garden, terrace of Kitayama cedar, underfloor heating · bathroom 2017, karakami paper and new tatami 2026. One to three guests.
Suites
Kiku
58.38 sq m; 16 tatami (10 and 6) · garden (tsuboniwa), ground floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath (2 m long) in a 7-tatami garden bathroom · repaired 2024, new tub 2025, karakami paper 2026. Kept for members, sold when free. One to five guests.
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62.30 sq m; 16 tatami (8 and 8) · dry garden (karesansui), ground floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath in an 8-tatami garden bathroom (2015), new Kitayama cedar terrace, karakami paper and tatami 2026. Kept for members, sold when free. Up to six guests.
Matsu
62.30 sq m; 16 tatami (10 and 6) · dry garden (karesansui), first floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath in an 8-tatami garden bathroom (2015) · sliding doors in Kawashima textile and karakami paper and a new Kitayama cedar terrace, 2026. Up to six guests.
Tsurukame
92.10 sq m; 20 tatami (a 10-mat Japanese room and a 10-mat bedroom with twin beds) · garden and bamboo, first floor view · Half-open-air hinoki bath in a 10-tatami patio bathroom (2016), kitchenette and washer-dryer. Up to six guests.
Yugiri
70.10 sq m; maisonette, 10 tatami below and a bedroom with two semi-double beds above · garden, from a bay window view · Private TyloHelo steam sauna and a hinoki bath upstairs. The English room page says the sauna is out of service and the room is sold at a lower rate meanwhile. Up to six guests.
Dining and wellness
An autumn course of the Kyoto kaiseki
Nanzen-ji yudofu, simmered tofu
- Ryotei Yachiyo (garden restaurant)
- Kyoto kaiseki restaurant · lunch · lunch 11am–3pm
- Wellness
- No spa: the two shared baths in the annex (not hot-spring water) with private 45-minute slots in the evening, massage for a fee, and free bicycles on the first day.
Where it is
- Keage station
- 5 min on foot
- Kyoto station
- 25 min by taxi
- Kyoto station
- 40 min by train
- Kansai International Airport
- 1 h 40 by train
- Kansai International Airport
- 2 h by the hotel’s car
- Itami Airport
- 1 h 20 by bus
34 Nanzenji Fukuji-cho, Sakyo, Kyoto
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Guests with tattoos may use the baths.
Kansai International: about 75 minutes on the Haruka express to Kyoto station, then a taxi; Itami: about 55 minutes by limousine bus to Kyoto station.
