Kiraku Kyoto Honmachi

What a beautiful place! Kiraku Kyoto Honmachi is a house which has been refurbished with subtle taste and delightful creativity. There’s definitely magic to it! I loved walking on the pebbles in the downstairs bedroom - so soothing for sore feet. There’s also a smooth walkway to the bed if pebbles aren’t your thing. Upstairs there’s a tokonoma with scroll, as well as a full set of equipment for carrying out a tea ceremony, including of course, matcha. The host even had delicious matcha “financiers” waiting for us upon arrival. The outdoor bath is brilliant. It’s quite easy to fill and I’d highly recommend having an outdoor soak every night. Seeing as some in our group weren’t up for tourism in the city, it was doubly worthwhile to have stayed in such a house where they could breathe in Kyoto atmosphere without ever moving from the tatami!

Amazing Japanese cottage Amazing Japanese cottage which was really well furnished and the hot bath was really good! The complementary mini bar was a nice surpise. A must for anyone wanting a traditional Japanese stay. The Breakfast was also a great experience. A couple of suggestions for improvements; - Moscetos were around the outside bath and a few went inside so a couple of mosceto plugs would be good. - The building did creak alot at night and woke me up a few times - We couldnt get any hot water at the bathroom taps or kitchen taps