The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

The Kiyomizu elementary school of 1933 below Kiyomizu-dera, now a hotel with a rooftop bar facing the Yasaka Pagoda.

Four-star · From $350 per nightAny mandatory hotel fees are shown before you confirm.

Shingo Mitsuno / The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

Higashiyama & Gion · Kyoto

A sense of the place

The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu — suite — The bedroom of the Panoramic Suite of The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu at night: a wide bed with white pillows, a bolster and a gold throw, two green abstract panels on a timber wall, a cove-lit ceiling and a corner of floor-to-ceiling windows on the lights of Kyoto, with the lit five-storey Yasaka pagoda at right; nobody in frame — Shingo Mitsuno / The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

Why it's in the collection

Because the elementary school of 1933 below Kiyomizu-dera was converted into a hotel, its classrooms and corridors kept, with a rooftop bar that looks at the Yasaka Pagoda and the lanes of Sannenzaka at the gate – and the house holds four-star standing, listed at exactly the tier it holds.

Below Kiyomizu-dera on the Higashiyama slope, at the lanes of Sannenzaka; an independent house.
The former Kiyomizu elementary school of 1933, its building kept; a rooftop bar facing the Yasaka Pagoda.
Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star 2026 for the hotel; holds four-star standing.

The neighborhood

Morning over Higashiyama & Gion

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.

Kiyomizu-dera, five minutes on foot uphill.
Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka, at the door.
The Yasaka Pagoda, five minutes on foot.

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