Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa

Hotel in Kyoto, near Nishiki Market

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Dates

November 2025

20

December 2025

4-Bed Room - Non Smoking | Desk, free WiFi

Located close to Nishiki Market and Nijō Castle, Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa provides laundry facilities. Guests can connect to free in-room WiFi.

Very good

Popular amenities

Laundry
Air conditioning
Free WiFi

Room options

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Tonight

Nov 20 - Nov 21

Tomorrow

Nov 21 - Nov 22

All rooms

1 bed

2 beds

3+ beds

Showing 5 of 5 rooms

Double Room - Non Smoking

Highlights

Air conditioning

Refrigerator

Flat-screen TV

Hair dryer

Shower/tub combination

Private bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub

Toilet with electronic bidet

151 sq ft
Sleeps 1
1 Double Bed

Twin Room - Non Smoking

Exceptional

Highlights

Air conditioning

Refrigerator

Flat-screen TV

Hair dryer

Shower/tub combination

Private bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub

Toilet with electronic bidet

151 sq ft
Sleeps 2
2 Twin Beds

Triple Room A - Non Smoking

Exceptional

Highlights

Air conditioning

Refrigerator

Flat-screen TV

Hair dryer

Shower/tub combination

Private bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub

Toilet with electronic bidet

194 sq ft
Sleeps 3
3 Twin Beds

Triple Room B - Non Smoking

Highlights

Air conditioning

Refrigerator

Flat-screen TV

Hair dryer

Shower/tub combination

Private bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub

Toilet with electronic bidet

194 sq ft
Sleeps 2
2 Double Beds

4-Bed Room - Non Smoking

Highlights

Air conditioning

Refrigerator

Flat-screen TV

Hair dryer

Shower/tub combination

Private bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub

Toilet with electronic bidet

215 sq ft
Sleeps 4
4 Twin Beds

About the neighborhood

409-1 Karigane, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Kyoto, 600-8430

What's nearby

Shijo Street - 3 min walk - 0.3 km
Nishiki Market - 16 min walk - 1.3 km
Nijō Castle - 17 min walk - 1.4 km
Kawaramachi Street - 20 min walk - 1.7 km
Kyoto Tower - 4 min drive - 2.3 km

Getting around

Omiya Station - 4 min walk
Nijojo-mae Station - 14 min walk
Itami Airport (ITM) - 56 min drive

Restaurants

‪マクドナルド - ‬4 min walk
‪コメダ珈琲店四条大宮店 - ‬4 min walk
‪BURGER REVOLUTION KYOTO - ‬1 min walk
‪モリタ屋京都本店 - ‬4 min walk
‪CoCo壱番屋京都四条大宮店 - ‬3 min walk

About this property

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa

Hotel near Nishiki Market

Located close to Nijō Castle and Kawaramachi Street, Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa provides laundry facilities. Stay connected with free in-room WiFi.

Other perks include:

An elevator, luggage storage, and a vending machine

Room features

All guestrooms at Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa boast comforts such as air conditioning, as well as amenities like free WiFi.

Other amenities include:

Bathrooms with deep soaking tubs and toilets with electronic bidets
32-inch flat-screen TVs with digital channels
Refrigerators, electric kettles, and heating

Similar properties

Free WiFi
Air conditioning
Laundry

NT$985 total

Dec 15 - Dec 16

Property amenities

Internet

Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

No onsite parking available

Family friendly

In-room refrigerator
Laundry facilities

Conveniences

Laundry facilities
Limited-hour front desk
Luggage storage
Shared microwave
Vending machine

Guest services

Change of bedsheets (on request)
Change of towels on request
Housekeeping (on request)

Accessibility

Elevator

More

Smoking not allowed

Room amenities

Bathroom

Deep soaking bathtub
Free toiletries
Hair dryer
Private bathroom
Shower/bathtub combination
Slippers
Toilet with electronic bidet
Towels provided

Entertainment

32-inch flat-screen TV with digital channels

Food and drink

Electric kettle
Refrigerator

More

Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
Desk
Heating (climate-controlled)

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight

Contactless check-in available

Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 6:00 AM - midnight

Front desk staffed during limited hours

This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

1 child, up to the age of 5 years, can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room

Rollaway/extra beds are not available

Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

A city tax may be collected at the property. The city tax ranges from JPY 100–10,000 per person, per night based on the nightly room rate. Please note that further exemptions may apply. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy

Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges

Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed

This property accepts credit cards and cash

Cashless transactions are available

We should mention

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare requires all international visitors to submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ); additionally, lodging proprietors are required to photocopy passports for all registering guests and keep the photocopy on file

Property is also known as

GRAND JAPANING HOTEL KARIGANE

GRAND JAPANING KARIGANE KYOTO

GRAND JAPANING KARIGANE

GRAND JAPANHOTEL OMIYA KARIGANE

M's INN OMIYA KARIGANE

Smart Kyoto Shijo Horikawa

Meldia Stay Omiya KARIGANE

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa Hotel

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa Kyoto

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa Hotel Kyoto

Frequently asked questions

Is Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking?

This hotel doesn't offer parking.

What time is check-in at Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight. After-hours check-in is not available.

What time is check-out at Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa?

Check-out is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa located?

Located in Shimogyo Ward, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Nishiki Market and Nijō Castle. Kawaramachi Street and Kyoto Tower are also within 2 mi (3 km). Omiya Station and Shijo-omiya Station are within a 5-minute walk.

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Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa Reviews

8.4

Very Good

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.8/10

Eco-friendliness

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

2025/7/30

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Clean , comfy , close to stations.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

6/10 Okay

Leonila

2025/10/10

Liked: Property conditions & facilities

Disliked: Staff & service

Staff are friendly but most of the time are not around

Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2025

6/10 Okay

Teresa

2025/11/19

Liked: Cleanliness

Disliked: Amenities

hotel was more backpack or hostel. room was clean and very basic, no place to put bags/luggage. staff were friendly and tried to be helpful but uaually not...i.e. would not call taxi. taxi drivers had difficulty finding for drop off. English only via translation app.

Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2025

10/10 Excellent

James

2025/6/18

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

This hotel is truly a gem. I can’t believe how nice it was and in a great location in Kyoto. Super clean, great beds, and great service all around for a crazy cheap price. Highly recommend, best place we stayed in Japan.

Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Gillian

2025/5/23

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

Location great but should provide more detailed directions to hotel from train station, because even google map was confused about left or right, through all the laneways! Very good service and provision of clean towels etc, but room a bit small. Would be good if an iron was available.

Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

8/10 Good

Pei

2019/6/23

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Convenient

Location was near the central area, very convenient.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Andres Ivan

2023/11/24

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

This place was great. Th only suggestion for prospective customers especially from countries where smoking in hotel rooms is not ok is to make sure that they do not book a smokers room by accident.

Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

2019/3/11

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Everything was clean and comfortable for such a low price. The room was small, but what can one expect in Japan. The staff made extra effort to get a taxi for us after we checked out.

Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Unmesh

2019/6/25

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Hotel is good but Difficult Check in

Check in is automated / self check in so it is quick process but could be messy as I didn’t receive the room number, passcode, etc. had to call the reception guys sitting somewhere in Kyoto using the mobile phone available in the reception desk. Other than that hotel room and stay and good and convenient.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Mark

2019/5/23

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice and affordable hotel that's hard to find

Location difficult to find without gps on your phone with data. Hotel was nice, but never received check in code so couldn't get in to the building without calling. Room was large for Japanese standards. No frills, 2 blocks from bus station. Not much in the area, but a 30 minute walk from everything that matters.

Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

2019/10/28

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

What I liked: rooms were comfortable and clean, the site had complementary washers and dryers, staff was friendly What I didn’t like: staff was hard to find, never received an email with the code to get into the building so I had to use the help line. Overall I would stay here again, the area is nice and it was a good hotel

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

2019/2/23

Liked: Cleanliness

Promised items were not provided. The listing in Expedia wasn’t up-to-date as told by receptionist. So what you see is not what you get. The address listed on Expedia isn’t easily searchable on Google maps - easy to get lost.

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

2/10 Terrible

OKAN

2019/6/14

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Horrible Check-in

We got very upset because we came to this hotel at 23.30 and we waited until 01.00 a.m. to make checkin. (1hours 30 minutes) . Horrible. There is nobody at the reception for this reason we didn't enter to the hotel. The phone outside nobody answere for a longtime then a guy opened the phone but he was not serious and as we were very tired we waited too much for checkin. be carefull to choose this hotel outside the recepitiom hours. You can be stay out of the hotel.

Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

2/10 Terrible

Jacinto

2019/7/8

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Disliked: Staff & service

So bad experience, I didn’t receive any email before I arrived and there was no one at the front office. I have tried to call them for 30 mins and there was no one answering the phone. Finally they answered the phone to let me check in. There was a couple coming after me and they happened the same thing, they tried calling them for an hour, NO ONE ANSWERED THE PHONE.

Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

Norman

2019/4/10

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Very nice modern hotel, with some minor negatives.

Quite new hotel. Nicely appointed room. Unlike some of the Grand Japaning hotels in Kyoto, this one has a receptionist there every day -- from 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM. That's good because we never received the email that we were supposed to receive from the hotel's owners that gave us an entry code to get into the lobby to register. Nice that they have free washers and dryers and even free laundry detergent to use in the machine. Negatives: Directions for washer and dryer are only in Japanese; fortunately the receptionist speaks fluent English and was able to help us push the right buttons. Also, the dryer takes a very long time to dry clothes -- took about 1.5 hours to dry my load which included blue jeans. Rooms are quite small -- not much room to lay out suitcases. But there is lots of room under the wester-style beds to store luggage. Bathroom was adequate size, including a full-size sink, unlike some of the Grand Japaning hotels in Kyoto. Despite the minor negatives, I would stay here again.

Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

2019/9/26

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Disliked: Staff & service

No-staff model not easy to work through and NOT mentioned on the booking site or in confirmation docs. I never received the email with check-in information, a problem I’ve read in other reviews also. It was also necessary to contact (via the “help” phone outside the front entrance - which only connected to someone at a remote location) to get housekeeping performed. It turns our housekeeping is only done every 3rd day, which is acceptable if you are expecting it - but they don’t say which day it will be. In my case, housekeeping was only done twice in 9 days and included getting fresh towels. Not good. The place was good but the advance and ongoing communications were really inadequate.

Stayed 9 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

2019/4/1

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Pleasant Stay despite Hiccups

This is a brand new hotel, location not easy to find(in a small lane), advise guests to ask staff at subway station for direction to get there. There was some hiccups upon chk-in due to high occupancy n that resulted in us not receiving the code via our email. However, there are staff there till 9pm to assist you through the chk-in. The reason we choose this Japaning hotel is becuz on its official site, it said tt it provides a Handy smartphone for guest to bring it out with you. This will ease language barrier for us to find our way using this Handy. However, to our disappointment, it wasn’t provided at all aft speaking long to someone on the phone even with our request to “borrow” one fm other Japaning hotels chain as we ve excluded data router for our trip becuz of supposed “Handy”. We didn’t find the staff helpful as there are plentiful of Japaning Hotels throughout Kyoto and for the rest of days in Kyoto, we tried hard to find our way around! Nevertheless, we must say tt the staff at the counter are genuinely helpful, trying to guide us the way to our sightseeing spots. We like their sincerity and this makes our trip pleasant. Laundry is free n this is a great plus point for travelers. I would recommend this hotel.

Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Meguru

2025/8/4

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

祇園祭で他のホテルの価格が高騰している中、リーズナブルの宿代でした。

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Gabriel

2025/8/1

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Buen hotel aunque con puntos a mejorar

Hotel moderno y acogedor ubicado en una zona muy tranquila y bien conectada con transporte público. La zona dispone de supermercados cercanos al hotel que agradecimos mucho tener a mano. El personal agradable. Las instalaciones por lo general correctas, las habitaciones son limpias y acogedoras pero no estuvimos todo lo cómodos que en un principio esperamos ya que los colchones eran muy duros e incómodos, además en las ventanas no había una cortina que impida que entre la luz y nos despertaba al amanecer, lo cual interrumpía el descanso, pero por lo demás es correcto.

Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2025