Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto
Four Seasons · Higashiyama & Gion · Kyoto
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because Four Seasons' first house in Kyoto stands around an eight-hundred-year-old pond garden in the temple district of Higashiyama, with a spa and the temples of the eastern hills at the door – and the house holds four-star standing, listed at exactly the tier it holds.
- In Higashiyama's temple district, near Toyokuni Shrine and Sanjusangendo; a Four Seasons house.
- Built around an 800-year-old pond garden; a spa and an indoor pool.
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star 2026 for the hotel; holds four-star standing.
Good to know
- Address — 445-3, Myohoin Maekawa-cho, Higashiyama-ku, 605-0932 Kyoto
- Opened — 2016
The neighborhood
Higashiyama & Gion
The temples of the eastern slopes and the lanes of Gion below them – home to five of the ten hotels. Here are Kiyomizu-dera and the stone streets of Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka, the Yasaka Pagoda and Kodaiji, Yasaka Shrine and Maruyama Park. In Gion, the teahouses line Hanamikoji and the Shirakawa canal.
- The pond garden and the temples of Higashiyama, at the door.
- Kiyomizu-dera, fifteen minutes on foot uphill.
- Kyoto Station, ten minutes by taxi.
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