Mimaru Kyoto Station – A Favorite for Families in Kyoto

MIMARU Kyoto Station sits less than 1 km from Kyoto Station, placing guests within a 5-minute walk of Shinkansen bullet train lines and the Kyoto Station Building. The hotel is 800 meters from TKP Garden City Kyoto and 1.4 km from Sanjusangen-do Temple, a 13th-century Buddhist temple with 1,001 statues. Multiple 7-Eleven convenience stores are within a 1-minute walk, and AEON Mall is a 10-minute walk away.

The hotel offers family apartments with bunk beds, sofa beds, and separate sleeping areas for groups of 4-6 people. Pokémon-themed rooms include a giant Snorlax plushie, themed decor, and exclusive gift items such as pencil cases. Every unit has a full kitchen with a stovetop, microwave, and refrigerator, plus a private bathroom with a deep soaking bathtub and walk-in shower.

Staff at the 24-hour front desk speak English and Japanese, providing luggage forwarding service to the next hotel and restaurant recommendations via shared Google Docs. The hotel offers daily fresh towel service and trash collection, and guests can borrow cribs, diaper pails, baby baths, and blankets for infants. Laundry facilities with coin-operated washers and dryers are located on the first floor, and a water filling station is available in the lobby.

A rooftop terrace provides views of the Kyoto Station area and the Shinkansen tracks. Guests can borrow board games from the front desk for in-room entertainment. The hotel has one elevator serving 12 accessible floors, and a paid laundry room with soap dispensed automatically and a change machine that accepts 1,000-yen bills.

Kyoto Station's 10th and 11th floors contain dozens of restaurants, including an A5 wagyu yakiniku restaurant around the corner. Sanjusangen-do Temple and Kyoto National Museum are within 3 km, and Gion Shijo Station is 2.8 km away. Guests can walk to Nidec Tower (Kyoto Tower) in less than 10 minutes.

Location: 800 meters from Kyoto Station, 5-minute walk to Shinkansen

Rooms: Pokémon-themed rooms with giant Snorlax plushie

Family: Cribs, diaper pails, baby baths available on request

Services: Luggage forwarding, daily fresh towels & trash collection

Amenities: Rooftop terrace, board games, coin-operated laundry