The best hotel in Japan!

We travelled to Japan with our 10 month old and absolutely loved our stay here. Great location and walking distance to Gion, Pontocho, Nikishi market, etc. Lots of restaurants and shopping nearby. Cinema King room was extremely spacious and comfy. Would stay again!

Has the best view !!

Room is huge. Very new and clean to me. In the centre of the shopping district. Toilet and bathroom is separated. Breakfast is great. They have option for traditional breakfast or western breakfast. Great hotel view.

Good location, high degree of cleanliness. The performances in the retreat room on the 3/F were surprises to us and very entertaining.

Highly recommend: perfect location in Kyoto, clean and great service

Good location. Restaurant has nice view. Breakfast limited choices. Very clean nice rooms and helpful staff

We chose The Gate Hotel Kyoto as our "headquarter" for its extremely convenient location for our Japan travel itinerary. And I cannot emphasize how convenient it is. It is about a 5 minute walk from the metro station that connects you to Arashiyama, Fushima Inari, and even Osaka. The first night we arrived and walked 10 mins to Nishiki Market, and then we discovered we were right next to downtown Kyoto. 20 min walk and you reach Ninenzaka and Kyomizudera. Everything is walking distance to this hotel. The rooms are quite spacious and have a great view of Kyoto, and everything feels like brand new. The staff is amazing. They have a traditional Japanese breakfast, but it runs fast. They start serving at 630 am, we arrived at 7am and they were sold out already. Next morning we went at 630 and there were already guests in the restaurant ordering the Japanese breakfast, so if you want the traditional, be there right at opening time or risk it getting sold out. Definitely I would recommend this hotel if this is your first time in Kyoto. Also, Kichi Kichi omurice is lke 2 minutes away on foot if you like viral tiktok trending stuff

It was a pleasure to stay but the mattress isn't comfortable

very nice! good location and beautiful historic building. hope to stay there again!

Great hotel and staff! Super helpful and welcoming. Great breakfast and very comfy beds!

Great location very new property

Fantastic hotel right next to a beautiful part of kyoto

Perfect location and comfortable hotel

Fantastic 4 night stay Highly recommend Would stay here again Loved the fire pit in the evening after a long day at temples

Had an amazing stay for 2 nights at this hotel. Staff was very friendly and accommodating. Location is great, next to potoncho alley and kawaramachi dori so plenty of dining options. Gion is walkable or you can take plenty of buses to kiyomizudera, ginkakuji/kinkakuji. Subway station is also close by. There is a lounge serving light snacks, free house wine and juices as well and at night there was a small bonfire outside the lounge where you can roast your marshmallows. Overall, an amazing hotel 10/10.

very nice

It can be quite noisy with the motorbike sound at night. Free beverage is great and nice pillows.

Hotel is a great spot and the rooms are comfortable, clean and all well maintained. The bar area you see in the pictures overlooking the river is closed by 10:00 so never got to use it! Luckily loads of places to eat outside the door

Good location and simple spacious rooms depending on what you book- we booked a corner room with a sitting area and double basins. Good value for the price and nice breakfast which gives you 2 options to order apart from the buffet of lettuce and vegetables, fruit and a table of croissants, jams, freshly squeezed orange juice etc We liked the eggs Benedict with smoked salmon . However it is the same every day - we had breakfast 3 days running. Good base from which to explore Kyoto.

Everything was perfect. A stylish oasis in Kyoto near everything. Friendly, professional and just wonderful

Awesome place

The location is very convenient! Great experience!

The gate is incredibly close to pontocho alley and loads of dining options. Rooms were spotless, mattress and pillow comfortable. I didnt use any of their amenities like the fire pit since we were always out exploring and returned late. But as a base for sleeping its a really nice hotel.

The location was great! Close to everything and really interesting street life.

The hotel is beautiful and located in a lively part of Kyoto. Lots of shopping and resraurants around! The staff was incredibly helpful and kind, we ended up forgetting some items in the room and they mailed it to our next hotel in Osaka. We'll definitely stay there again on our next trip!

Amazing attention to detail.

Perfect location for accessing all that Kyoto has to offer. Could not find any faults.

The room is as extremely spacious and the staff was remarkable. I would definitely recommend this hotel. The hotel is ideally located. We were sad to leave this hotel.

The hotel is located in a busy, charming area of Kyoto, has a fresh, new feel to it, has a nice restaurant, a gym with new cardio equipment and a lounge where you get free coffee, tea and wine. The staff seems to follow a formula and and are professional as such, but have little appreciation of what service means. They would not help book a restaurant, charged fairly expensive rates for a late check-out and would answer several requests with a flat "no" or "impossible". Could become a great hotel with a leadership adjustment.

Great location, and lovely room. Would definitely recommend

Very busy area, common areas not the cleanest.