hotel, Higashiyama, Kyoto
Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion is a hotel in Higashiyama, the old eastern quarter of Kyoto, a few minutes on foot from Yasaka Shrine and the lanes of Gion, and our Kyoto house on the tours and journeys that stay in the city.
Why stay at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
Higashiyama on foot
Yasaka Shrine, the Yasaka pagoda and the stone slopes of Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka are all a walk from the door.
Rooms in pale wood
Low beds, slatted screens and long windows: a calm room to return to after a day of temples.
Gion by evening
The teahouse streets of Gion lie a few minutes away, so an evening there ends with a short walk home.
the setting
Old Kyoto at the door, quiet rooms behind it.
The hotel sits among the machiya streets between Yasaka Shrine and Kodai-ji, in the part of Kyoto that still looks most like the old city: tiled roofs, latticed fronts and stone-paved slopes climbing towards Kiyomizu-dera.
At the door: the lanes of Higashiyama, the Yasaka pagoda above the rooftops, and Gion and the Shirakawa a short walk downhill.
the house
Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion in photographs
Tea in the room A junior suite bathroom A junior suite in pale wood
Photographs: Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
the rooms
The rooms and suites
The rooms run in five categories, from the deluxe rooms through the executive rooms to the junior suites, in pale wood and soft linen, with slatted screens and wide windows; the junior suites add a sitting room and a bathroom with a deep tub and a glass-walled shower.
On The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan every room is from the hotel's upper categories or a suite, never the entry room.
to unwind
The bath
Kyoto's city centre has no hot spring of its own, and the hotel's bathing is in the rooms: deep tubs in stone-dark bathrooms, and in the junior suites a separate shower room behind glass. The onsen of the journey are at Kinosaki, on the Sea of Japan.
the table
Dining
Breakfast is served in the hotel, and the evenings belong to the city: on The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan that means a kaiseki dinner at a two-Michelin-star restaurant in Kyoto, and an evening with geiko and maiko in a teahouse room of Gion.
our tours here
The tours that stay at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
- SpringThe Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of JapanUSD $19,500 per personSee the journey
- AutumnThe Autumn Leaves Tour of JapanUSD $19,500 per personSee the journey
- The Private CollectionEssential JapanUSD $18,000 per person, two sharingSee the journey
- The Private CollectionClassic JapanUSD $22,000 per person, two sharingSee the journey
- The Private CollectionDefinitive JapanUSD $26,000 per person, two sharingSee the journey
the place
Kyoto
Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years, from 794, and its temples, gardens and wooden streets still hold that history.
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questions
Questions about Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion
Where is Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion?
In Higashiyama, the old eastern quarter of Kyoto, between Yasaka Shrine and Kodai-ji. Kyoto Station is about fifteen minutes by car.
Which of your tours stay at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion?
The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, The Autumn Leaves Tour of Japan and three journeys of The Private Collection stay here. Each tour page sets out the nights, the price and what is included.
Which rooms do you book at Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion?
On The Classic Cherry Blossom Tour of Japan, every room is from the hotel's upper categories or a suite, never the entry room.
Is there an onsen at the hotel?
No; central Kyoto has no hot spring of its own, and the bathing is in the rooms, with deep tubs throughout. Our onsen nights are at the ryokan of Kinosaki Onsen.
Can Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion be part of a private journey?
Yes. The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone, on your dates, and Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion can be any night of it. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.
Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion, on your dates.
The Custom Tour of Japan is created around your party alone, and Hotel The Celestine Kyoto Gion can be any night of it. If you would rather travel independently, the Expert Japan Itinerary plans every day for you.