Jiyujin — Hotel in Kyoto

I recommend this guesthouse 100%. ||The staff is incredibly friendly and helps you as much as they can.||The whole guesthouse is very clean and neat. The rooms have a nice size, the beds are spacious, the sanitary facilities are clean and you can even use the bath to relax. The kitchen/common room is very big with modern furniture and the kitchen offers all the utensils you need. They also have a laptop that you can use 24h and offer a lot of material for planning your Kyoto trips such as maps and guide books.||The atmosphere is very warm and open. I felt incredibly welcome and comfortable.||I'm a student and felt like the guesthouse was comfortably affordable to me, especially considering the quality of the stay.||If I can return to Kyoto I will definitely stay here again.||||The location of the questhouse is very good as well! The house itself lies in a small side street but is just a one-minute walk away from a big main road (Gojo Dori). There you'll immediately find a seven-7 at the corner and more importantly the Gojo subway station. Going from Gojo Station to Kyoto main station takes around 5 minutes.||If you like to walk you can also reach a more lively and modern corner of Kyoto with a lot of shopping and restaurant options (and even a gaming arcade!) within 25-30 minutes. (If you use google maps, you can either use the shopping mall called "OIOI" or the mall called "mina" as reference points. Google maps might put out a complicated route that leads you through a lot of little streets but actually it's a very straight forward march. ||When you follow the little side road from the guesthouse to the big road "Gojo Dori", turn right (not towards the Gojo station right at the seven-7 but the other direction) and walk straight forward until you reach a big crossing section. Turn left. There is a building of the "Bank of Kyoto, Kawaramachi Branch" right at the corner of the road that you now enter. Then walk straight all the time until you reach OIOI first and mina shortly after that.)||In that area you'll also find the Nishiki Market Shopping district, a very recommendable market area. You also have a cherry blossom viewing spot nearby (a small river lined with cherry trees) and can reach Gion by foot (and even the Heian shrine if you are not afraid to walk another 20 minutes).||||Also, close to mina is the vegan restaurant Ain Soph.Journey who offer amazing food.||||All in all I'm very glad that I could stay at the Jiyu-Jin. The service, location and price are great.||||Best...

Super helpful and informative people in Jiyujin. Whenever you leave the guesthouse, they will ask what we did yesterday and will provide helpful information on where are the must go places and how to go. Oh and they do speak english!||||They also sell a one day bus/train pass over their counter and their location is just 5min away from the subway and 7 eleven.||||I have a very good experience at their common room(kitchen area) because you get to talk to people from all around the world that come to Kyoto for holiday. Basically every night i would just buy food from outside and just sat down in the common area and socialize with the other guest.||||The room are very clean and tidy where me and my friend stay in the Japanese Style Room(the only sliding door in the guest house). I extremely love the smell of the tatami mat in the room which i believe the owner do change the...

Super helpful and informative people in Jiyujin. Whenever you leave the guesthouse, they will ask what we did yesterday and will provide helpful information on where are the must go places and how to go. Oh and they do speak english!||||They also sell a one day bus/train pass over their counter and their location is just 5min away from the subway and 7 eleven.||||I have a very good experience at their common room(kitchen area) because you get to talk to people from all around the world that come to Kyoto for holiday. Basically every night i would just buy food from outside and just sat down in the common area and socialize with the other guest.||||The room are very clean and tidy where me and my friend stay in the Japanese Style Room(the only sliding door in the guest house). I extremely love the smell of the tatami mat in the room which i believe the owner do change the...