Rakuten STAY URBAN Kyoto Shijo Omiya

The room was much larger than we expected. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The train station was literally a 5 minute walk from the hotel. Near the train station was several stores like Daiso and fast food (McDonalds, etc). This was a very convenient location to stay at.

The hotel was very conviently located about a 25 minute walk from the main areas of kyoto. It was also close to the train eaten station. Overall the stay was very pleasant. The included breakfast of rice porridge was simple but nourishing. The rooms are compact and the only issue was the water temperature in the shower would occasionally drop to a colder temperature.

GOOD

Overall the stay wasn’t too bad. The room and bed was sufficient, however as the twin beds were pushed together, the person on the end bed against the wall had to squeeze down the side in front of the tv to get to the bed. This was kind of ok of me as I am small, but it would have been impossible for anyone bigger than me. Also there is only one washer dryer at the property. Whilst there I waited 40 min for someone to get their clothes from the machine (they had entered a lock code so no one could open the machine but them) before giving up and getting up at 4:30am in the morning to ensure I could wash my clothes. While I was waiting the 40 min for the machine, 7 others came by to check if the machine was free to do there laundry. It is pretty poor that a hotel only has a single washing machine for people to do their laundry, as it is a dryer as well this increases the time that others cannot use the machine. At the very least the property should have two seperate washers and dryers. Property is about a 30 min walk from the city centre which isn’t too bad if you don’t mind walking.