Ikoi-no-Ie Kyoto Reviews

Very good journey but noisy at night as walls are very thin...

Good if you'd like to try staying in Japanese styled room with proper tatami mat & futon. I admitted that the futon is so comfortable and made us lazy to wake up the next morning. The staffs are nice & spoke very good English. Just that we have very bad experience finding the way to the hostel in the first day, the direction given by hostelworld are confusing..as it directed us from the nearby 7E shop, without realizing there are 2 nearby 7E shops in the area. It is still a good place to stay.

Very easy to find following instructions given. Ideal location for seeing Kyoto. Very pleasant staff. Will go there again if I visit Kyoto.

Noisy at times, during 10pm - 8am window when there are people moving in and out of the place (loud footsteps could be heard all the way up the 3rd floor)

The atmosphere is very nice. I really like the Japanese decoration and lovely detail. Staffs are helpful and the location is not far from Gojo station. I have a great time here

The place was very,very basic for thr money,which it is expensive.

Thanks for the kindness and great arrangement for our stay (3+4), appreciate your helping hand and sincere smile. Will revisit if we return. Ichiban!

Overall, we like the place. Just one note for improvement. There is wifi facility but the connection is terrible. Hopefully this is something that they can fix.

The room was so good, no smell at all (for me is the best among all ryokan). Feel comfortable in the small house, warm atmosphere, nice decorations, good stuff (communicate well in english) Just a suggestion, I think the best transportation for staying there is bicycle. The range between this ryokan & some famous sightseeing is comfortable to go with bicycle (due to traffic jam & far train station). And not much bus you can see from the street, i think have to wait quite a time for the ride.

Great place, just a few minutes walk from Kyoto station. Highly recommended.

Stay here every time I'm in Kyoto. Great location, very private and quiet area which is easily accessible. Lovely staff. Just like a big ryokan without the expensive price!

Good location. Wife and I stayed for three nights and slept comfortably with Japanese style bedding. The Japanese pajamas provided were great. Facilities are minimal but more than enough for budget travelers. We never used the kitchen but it would be great for guests who would stay for a longer period of time and would like to save some bucks.

Not so good Not so Bad. Maybe just a little bit too many hosts for only one bathroom. And not enough heater in the common room. But possibility to buy some cheap second hand Kimonos & Yukata. ;-)

This was our first hostel in Kyoto and we were a little disappointed. The place was good, easy to find and cheap, clean etc. We stayed in two private twin rooms. The first room was so small that the two mattresses just fitted and we had nowhere to put our bags except standing them up, which was not ideal. They were the smallest rooms we stayed in in Japan. The hostel has two buildings about 100m away from each other, ours was the remote one and we were separated from everything.

stayed here for 2 night with ryokan style bedroom, love the futon.. good value for money, good location, the staff are helpful and have a good english..

It was nice little ryokan with a fun atmosphere. The buildings were separated so we had to walk a few minutes to get to the common area, the check-in desk, and the dining area. It was all so close though that it didn't make much of a difference. We stayed in a private room with an attached bathroom. It was more like a private apartment with a tatami mat room and futons, which was nice. The room looked like it hadn't been vacuumed though and there was an old half drunk coke bottle in the fridge.

A nice hostel to get the japanese living style life. But a bit expensive.

This is one of the best hostel I have ever stayed! Very traditional Japanese style, the room is clean and the staff is very helpful.

I really liked my room, the hostel was quite peaceful and clean.

Cool place with traditional Japanese rooms. Staff is awesome. Location very good, 10-15 min walk to Kyoto station (depending on how fast you walk) and there is a subway station (Gojo) 2 min away. Only negative is that its very expensive.