Great location, right in front of the gate to Nanzenji. We could walk to Heian jingu and Kyoto Handicraft center the next morning. About 800 yen taxi ride downtown in the evening for dinner (or you can borrow bikes and ride to town). We stayed in the 6-mat tatami with toilet - quite charming in Japanese style, room/bathroom itself clean and basic. Japanese breakfast is excellent. Yachiyo is a well-known old ryokan in Kyoto, known for its Tofu meals. Would recommend this place for a Japanese experience! Much prefer this location to the many ryokans around Kyoto station (Kyoto station area is not downtown).

Family of 4 with the first time in a Ryokan for my family. We spent 2 nights and enjoyed the huge rooms we had on the first floor. It was traditionnal with a nice view on the garden below. The futon beds were comfortable and the staff very nice. The only bad point is the street noise during the night. Very noisy. The breakfast was served by very nice ladies and my family experienced for the first time a japanese breakfast. Fun, even if they then wanted to have a coffee and bread sometimes after during the morning! The location is a little out of the center of Kyoto but with the busses it was very easy to go around. 20 minutes to the Ginkakuji,

Stayed for 3 nights at a room on the second floor. The room was comfortable and the staff were nice to deal with. The staff that I talked with knew at least a little bit of English and were comfortable with trying to communicate. The toilet and shower/bath were clean and worked as expected, along with the air conditioning.

I had breakfast every day and the Japanese version (they offer Western breakfast as well) was extremely tasty, they offer a large variety of food with it, so I was stuffed every morning.

The room overlooked a garden that was extremely beautiful and well-kept - as were the entire grounds of the ryokan. I felt that the price to stay was quite reasonable.

Highly recommended

We showed up about an hour before our reservation - the staff was very friendly and accommodating and let us into our room early. The room was clean and bright and the futons were so very comfortable, it was our best night of sleep in Japan! This is a great location for visiting the philosophers path and the Kamo river area. We walked everywhere from the ryokan (which I highly recommend, forget the subway, you will see much more walking and exploring) - Pontocho and the river are about a 20 min walk away and downtown is probably another 10 - I can't emphasis enough - walk or rent a bike.

We had a room with the bathroom attached - love Japanese style tubs! The staff was nice but left us alone unless we approached them - which I very much appreciated.

This ryokan does not have a curfew - another plus - and wireless internet which was not easy to come by in Japan.

We had an excellent stay here and I would highly recommend this place to anyone I know traveling to Kyoto.