Experience historic Japan with unparalleled luxury at the Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto at the foot of Mount Higashiyama. An 800-year-old pond garden at the center of the hotel provides the setting for a peaceful and relaxing stay in one of Japan's best-preserved historic cities. With a fantastic spa, authentic master cuisine, and traditional activities, this luxury vacation brings you closer to Japanese culture than ever before.
A variety of creative, enriching activities await you both inside and outside the hotel. Unique cultural experiences include dedicated ninja, samurai, geiko (geisha), and meiko experiences, karate, aikido, kendo, or kyudo training, sake tastings, and origami workshops. Relax with a yoga class or a visit to the spa before exploring the city on a rickshaw tour. Kyoto is one of Japan's best-preserved historic cities, with intact palaces, gardens, 1,600 Buddhist temples, and 400 Shinto shrines.
The 123 rooms and suites welcome you as authentic oases of calm with dark hardwood floors, hand-painted panels, and floor-to-ceiling fusuma sliding doors. All accommodations are modern in design yet strongly inspired by traditional Japanese interior design. The elegant bathrooms feature large bathtubs and monsoon showers. A gentle yuzu citrus scent fills the rooms. The luxurious residential suites also feature private balconies, kitchens, and dining rooms, and the opulent Presidential Suite on the fourth floor is even the largest hotel suite in all of Kyoto.
For an unforgettable culinary experience, secure one of the strictly limited seats at Sushi Wakon. Under the direction of renowned Tokyo sushi master Rai Masuda, you will be served the finest fresh seafood. The cozy Fuju is the ideal place for matcha tea and something sweet, while the brasserie next to the pond garden serves stylish Asian-European fusion cuisine throughout the day – either on the sun-drenched terrace or indoors with a view of the gardens.
The wonderful Four Seasons Kyoto is in a prime location in the historic Higashiyama district, right next to an 800-year-old pond garden that once belonged to a wealthy samurai family. Japan's rich culture and history accompany you at every turn here, not least because all the rooms exude a very special kind of warmth and coziness and are deeply inspired by traditional Japanese architecture. The elegant lobby welcomes you with cream-colored marble, cypress wood, shoji paper lanterns, and seasonal floral arrangements. Nine-meter-high windows open up to a magnificent view of an ancient pond garden with stone bridges, cherry blossoms, and a picturesque teahouse.
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