In the Kamiyanagicho district, the First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma is tucked down a narrow back street just a stone’s throw from Shijo metro station. Free Internet access is available all throughout this modern, capsule-style hotel. Sleek, ultra-compact sleeping compartments with cabin beds and air-conditioning provide flat-screen TVs, personal safes and nightwear. Guests are required to make use of shared bathroom facilities. Luggage storage services and ear plugs are available from the 24-hour reception. Additional amenities include a hot tub and a coin-operated laundry facility. Breakfast, evening meals and draught beers are served in a stylish bar/lounge. Vending machines proffer drinks and rice/noodle-based dishes. The First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma is one-and-a-quarter miles from both the sacred Nishi Honganji Buddhist temple and Kyoto’s main train station. The revered Kyoto Imperial Palace is less than two miles away.
With bus, train and metro stops pretty much right on the doorstep; all kinds of shopping and dining opportunities very close by, and more temples and shrines in striking distance thanyou can shake a stick at; it's easy to see why so many visitors have hig
The vast majority of female guests who stayed here greatly appreciated the fact that the sleeping compartments were organised into designated areas on separate male and female-only floors.
Numerous visitors have noted that the interiors here, from the sleeping compartments to the bathroom/shower facilities, look and feel supremely fresh and clean all of the time.
Instead of a door, the sleeping compartments here have a curtain which you pull down like a shop shutter whenever you want some privacy. Unsurprisingly, very few guests warmed to this idea as curtains afford very little in the way of privacy or indeed sou
A great many guests have been left unimpressed by the relative locations of the showers and the sleeping areas – they're on completely different floors!
It needs to be said that, while the compartments themselves are of a pretty good standard, the beds within them don't seem to cut the mustard. Many guests have complained about hard/uneven mattresses and rigid pillows.
No, First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma doesn’t offer pool areas.
No, First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma doesn’t allow pets.
No, First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma doesn’t provide parking.
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First Cabin Kyoto Karasuma is located in Kamiyarimachi 331, Takanoha Square 4 F, 600-8099, Kyoto, Japan.
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