京料理　宿屋　枳殻荘

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An Old Machiya Within Walking Distance of Kyoto Station

• 🏮A long-established ryokan in a 140-year-old kyo-machiya townhouse, kept as it was
• 🚶About 10 minutes on foot from JR Kyoto Station, or 5 from Keihan Shichijo
• 🌿Quiet Sumiyoshi-cho in Shimogyo, with the Shosei-en garden close by

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A Stone Bath, Reserved for You

• ♨️The iwaburo, built up in natural rock, is used privately by full reservation
• 🛁Most rooms share facilities, and bathing runs on booked time slots
• 🌙A machiya bathhouse in which to rinse the day off in private

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The Courtyard and Its Water

• 🪷The house's pride is its naka-niwa courtyard, with a small pond and carp
• 🍁The inner garden changes its expression season by season, as machiya gardens do
• 🪟The Japanese garden reads clearly from the guest room windows

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A Proper Kyo-Kaiseki Dinner

• 🍱Dinner is full kyo-kaiseki, built on seasonal kyo-yasai and fresh seafood
• 🥢It is served in your room, or at a separate private table
• 🍚Mornings are lighter, with tofu and Kyoto vegetables

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Domestic Beef Shabu-Shabu

• 🥩A shabu-shabu dinner course with Japanese domestic beef is also on offer
• 🍲The hot pot arrives steaming, after the appetisers
• 🏠A Kyoto evening taken slowly, in a room of your own

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Tatami Rooms, Machiya Character

• 🛏️Tatami rooms of 4.5, 8, 10 and 16 mats, chosen by party size
• 🪟Low tables and garden views, rest the Kyoto way
• 🚪Red balustrades along the corridor, and other traces of the old house

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Good to Know

• 🕚The door closes at 11pm and opens at 7am, in the machiya manner
• 💳Payment is by credit card
• 📍Walkable from Kyoto and Shichijo stations, which makes it an ideal sightseeing base

In a townhouse with 140 years in its timbers, water murmurs in the courtyard, the stone bath is yours by reservation, and the kyo-kaiseki follows the season. Minutes from Kyoto Station, take the old city quietly.