Six Senses Kyoto
Six Senses' first house in Japan, opened in 2024 in the Toyokuni Shrine quarter of Higashiyama.
Six Senses · Higashiyama & Gion · Kyoto
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because Six Senses opened its first house in Japan in 2024 in the Toyokuni Shrine quarter of Higashiyama, with a garden courtyard at its center and the Six Senses spa with the Alchemy Bar inside – and the house holds four-star standing, listed at exactly the tier it holds.
- In the Toyokuni Shrine quarter of Higashiyama, near Sanjusangendo; a Six Senses house, opened in 2024.
- A garden courtyard; the Six Senses spa with the Alchemy Bar.
- One MICHELIN Key in the 2024 selection; holds four-star standing.
The neighborhood
The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu · Higashiyama & Gion — Shingo Mitsuno / The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto KiyomizuHigashiyama & 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.
- Toyokuni Shrine and Hokoji, at the door.
- Sanjusangendo and the Kyoto National Museum, five minutes on foot.
- Kiyomizu-dera, fifteen minutes on foot.
“Six Senses' first house in Japan, opened in 2024 in the Toyokuni Shrine quarter of Higashiyama.”
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