HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO

Name: HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO
Address: Kyoto, JP

A house built around the Mitsui family's 300-year-old Kajiimiya gate, opposite Nijo Castle, with a hot-spring spa.

Five-star · From $900 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Morning over Central Kyoto: Nijo & Kamogawa

The Luxury Collection · Central Kyoto: Nijo & Kamogawa · Kyoto

A sense of the place

HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO — exterior — HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO at dusk: the entrance court's wet black granite plane reflecting the sky, two small lanterns glowing on the stone, the dark slatted pavilion at left, the low wings of rooms with lit windows around a garden of maples, rocks and a stone lantern, a great tree before the right-hand wing, and a sunset sky of orange, pink and violet clouds; nobody in frame — © HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO

Why it's in the collection

Because a house stands around the Mitsui family's three-hundred-year-old Kajiimiya gate, opposite Nijo Castle, with a private natural hot-spring spa inside its walls and the garden at the center – and the house holds five-star standing for the hotel and for the spa.

Opposite Nijo Castle in central Kyoto; a Luxury Collection house on the Mitsui family's historic site.
Built around the 300-year-old Kajiimiya gate; the Thermal Spring Spa, fed by a natural hot spring, with private baths.
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star 2026 for the hotel and for the Thermal Spring Spa; Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2024 selection; holds five-star standing.

The neighborhood

Morning over Central Kyoto: Nijo & Kamogawa

Central Kyoto: Nijo & Kamogawa

The grid of the old capital, between Nijo Castle and the Kamogawa river – home to three of the ten hotels. Here are Nijo Castle and the Imperial Palace grounds, the merchant streets of Karasuma and Nishiki Market, and the Kamogawa river with the terraces of Pontocho. Nishi Honganji and Kyoto Station lie to the south.

Nijo Castle, across the street.
The Imperial Palace grounds, fifteen minutes on foot.
Nishiki Market and Karasuma, ten minutes by taxi.

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