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Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa

2.5 star property

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Hallway
Triple Room A - Non Smoking
Exterior

Reviews

8.2 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Air-conditioning
  • Laundry room
  • 24/7 front desk

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409-1 Karigane, Shimogyo, Kyoto, Kyoto, 600-8430
  • Place, Shijo Street
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • Place, Nishiki Market
    ‪16 min walk‬
  • Place, Kawaramachi Street
    ‪20 min walk‬
  • Airport, Osaka (ITM-Itami)
    ‪57 min drive‬

Room options

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Double Room - Non Smoking

Double Room - Non Smoking

  • 14 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Twin Room - Non Smoking

Twin Room - Non Smoking

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • 14 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Single Beds

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Triple Room A - Non Smoking

Triple Room A - Non Smoking

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • 17 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 3 Single Beds

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Triple Room B - Non Smoking

Triple Room B - Non Smoking

  • 18 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Large Single Beds and 1 Single Bed

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4-Bed Room - Non Smoking

4-Bed Room - Non Smoking

  • 20 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 4 Single Beds

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About this property

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa

Along with a microwave in a common area, this hotel has laundry facilities and a 24-hour front desk. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a vending machine. Housekeeping is available on request.
Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa offers 42 accommodations with slippers and hair dryers. 32-inch flat-screen televisions come with digital channels.

Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations with deep soaking bathtubs, toilets with an electronic bidet, and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Change of towels and change of bedsheets can be requested. Housekeeping is provided on request.

During your stay at Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa, you're just a quick walk from Shijo Street. Features include free WiFi in public areas and laundry facilities.
  • Free WiFi
  • Amenities include laundry facilities, an elevator, and a vending machine
  • Just a 2-minute drive from Nishiki Market and a few minutes from Nijō Castle
As a guest of Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa, you'll find a vending machine, laundry facilities, and an elevator. WiFi is free in public spaces.

Property amenities

Internet

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

Parking and transport

  • No on-site parking available

Family friendly

  • In-room refrigerator
  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

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

Guest services

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

Accessibility

  • Lift

More

  • Smoke-free property

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

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Kids stay free! One child 5 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Payment types at the property

Important information

Fees

Guests will be asked to pay the following charges at the property:

  • 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've listed all charges provided to us by the property.

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business, or profession.
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
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.
If you cancel your booking, you'll be subject to the host's cancellation policy. In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, property booking services are not subject to the right of withdrawal.

We should mention

  • One child 5 years old or younger stays free in the same room as the parent or guardian when using existing bedding.
  • As required by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, all international visitors must submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ). Also, it's required that lodging proprietors photocopy the passports of 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

Smart Place Inn Kyoto Shijo Horikawa Reviews

Reviews

8.2

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 45 out of 107 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 39 out of 107 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 13 out of 107 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 5 out of 107 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 5 out of 107 reviews

8.6/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

8/10 Good

Nicholas

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean room, friendly staff, great amenities and very accessible.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2025

6/10 Okay

Teresa

Travelled with group
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

8/10 Good

Rick

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Leonila

Travelled with family
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Staff are friendly but most of the time are not around
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Clean , comfy , close to stations.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

kathleen

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

James

Travelled with family
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

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

10/10 Excellent

Henrique

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Stefhan

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Teresa

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Andres Ivan

Travelled with family
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

8/10 Good

akira

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

TZE KEE

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Should have room cleaning everyday
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Napassorn

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

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

Unmesh

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

Pei

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

Convenient

Location was near the central area, very convenient.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019

8/10 Good

Mark

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