Ace Hotel Kyoto: A Field Review of the Kengo Kuma Conversion
213 rooms in a 1926 telephone-exchange building reworked by Kengo Kuma, on Karasuma. Three nights testing the most ambitious design hotel in central Kyoto.
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3 dispatches on the desk.
Three Days in Kyoto
Kyoto over three days at street level — verified rooms across the tiers, kaiseki and Nishiki Market, the great shrines and temples, Gion, and how to beat the
A Week in Japan by Rail, Tokyo to Kyoto
Seven days down the old Tokaido road by Shinkansen — Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto, Nara, and a Himeji day trip — with the bullet-train math worked out.