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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 561 hotels
Best hotels in Kyoto
The 10 most notable hotels in Kyoto, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Hilton Garden Inn Kyoto Shijo Karasuma
397 Gojokarasumacho
354 m from Gojō Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.158, percentile 100 of 561
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2
Ibis Styles Kyoto Shijo
8 Nishinotoin Higashiiru, Kyoto / Kansai, Katsukyoyamacho
390 m from Shijō Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.158, percentile 99.82 of 561
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3
DoubleTree by Hilton Kyoto Higashiyama
1 Chome-45 Honmachi
144 m from Kiyomizu-Gojō Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.157, percentile 99.64 of 561
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4
DoubleTree by Hilton Kyoto Station
15 Higashikujo Nishiiwamotocho
388 m from Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyōto Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.157, percentile 99.46 of 561
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5
イビス スタイルズ 京都ステーション
85 m from JR Central Kyōto Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.157, percentile 99.29 of 561
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ROKU KYOTO, LXR Hotels & Resorts
京都府京都市北区衣笠鏡石町４４−１
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.157, percentile 99.11 of 561
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7
ヴィアイン京都駅八条口
南区室町通針小路東入ル東九条上殿田町44-1
150 m from JR Central Kyōto Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.157, percentile 98.93 of 561
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8
The Prince Kyoto Takaragaike
1092-2 Iwakura Hataedacho
398 m from Kokusaikaikan Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.156, percentile 98.75 of 561
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9
Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto
445-3 Myohoin Maekawacho
767 m from Shichijō Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.156, percentile 98.57 of 561
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10
The Thousand Kyoto
570 Higashishiokojicho
125 m from Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyōto Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.156, percentile 98.39 of 561
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).