The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto

ザ・リッツ・カールトン京都

Kyoto's top-end splurge on the Kamo River, Higashiyama hills out the window

⚠ Often full in foliage season

Hours

Check-in from 15:00, check-out by 12:00 (official site)

Per night (approx.)

약 ¥203,000~450,000

Address

Kamogawa Nijo-Ohashi Hotori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0902

A low-slung hotel on the west bank of the Kamo River beside Nijo Bridge. It opened in 2014 with 134 rooms, and the Higashiyama ridgeline sits right in the windows across the water. Downstairs there is a La Prairie spa and an indoor pool; the Michelin-starred tempura counter Mizuki and a Pierre Hermé boutique are in the building too. When people pick one blowout night in Kyoto, it tends to be this one.