Room 812 has seen better days. The hotplate is broken, and so there is an electric jug to boil the water for tea (green tea bags supplied), and the digital clock and radio between the two beds doesn't work, so there's an analogue alarm clock sitting on the bedside table.
But those really are peripheral and relatively unimportant things.
What's important is that the beds are clean, the bathroom is usable and the room is quiet enough at night to allow you to sleep.
The staff aren't fluent English speakers, but as this isn't a tourist-oriented hotel that really is neither surprising nor important.
The staff, however, are efficient, courteous and competent -- even when dealing with a foreigner who has mastered only about 500 words of their language - and patient.
And those things are done properly.
I booked my room on arrival in Kyoto, via the tourist centre at the station, resulting in a room for ¥4,200 per night (room only).
Considering the location of this business hotel, all of 500 metres' walk from the centre of Kyoto's CBD, it really is quite good.
It isn't a super-posh or super-trendy hotel, nor does it try to be.
But it is better in quality, I find, than some hotels that have charged me about seven times as much for a room.
I only meant to stay there for one night. That one night stretched to three.
- Court Hotel Kyoto
