Yamadaya Ryokan

one of the best and healthiest!

Very comfortable stay, very clean and spacious room. Staff was extremely kind and caring. Location is very convenient. Renovated communal bath with garden view (women and men alternate between the renovated, bigger bath and the smaller one without such a view). Breakfast is on demand and costs YEN 2160. Although this was more expensive than at other places I stayed, it was a real treat!

The bathroom I had was quite small and old-fashioned, but the overall room comfort was very good!

Really nice, higher-end ryokan. The staff was extremely nice and attentive (they even dried our umbrellas!!!!). Our room was spacious for a ryokan. It is located right in between the train station and where the fun area of Kyoto starts.

It was a little expensive. While our room was lovely, the "View" was of the street. I think maybe a non-view room might be nicer and/or quieter.

The staff were extremely friendly and tried to communicate even when their English was limited. Always welcoming and attentive. We liked the onsen, the sake tasting and breakfast. All in all a fantastic experience in a traditional Ryokan.

On the main street so at times there could be traffic noise.

The rooms were clean and roomy and the futons were comfortable. We ordered the kaiseki dinner and they brought enough food to feed an army. I had never eaten Japanese food before, so the dinner was an adventure for me. It was nice that they had an English menu so you could see what you were eating. We also tried the Japanese breakfast. It was much more reasonably priced than the dinner. The night we were there, the newly remodeled bath was for the women, and it was very nice. The older bath isn't that great. It's very small.

The price is very high