Takigawa Ryokan Honkan

The staff was so nice and so kind and awesome! But the rooms we stayed in had a few bugs and there were ants in the water. But I like ants. I think they will fix it though. The rooms were pretty good but if you have a lot of people in one room it feels kind of cramped sometimes. I would recommend if you want to stay in a traditional and cute and if you staff to be nice!

You can experience an old fashioned ryokan for quite fair price compared to other fancy ryokans. The room was quite nice and spacious and clean. The staff were very nice and there was always hot water with teabags and some sweets in our room. There is wifi at the reception and close to the reception. Unfortunately there was a group of tourist during our stay in the majority of the rooms and so they felt like they own the place and they were quite loud on the corridor which was a bit disturbing as the walls are really thin in a ryokan. The place seemed like a bit used, something that was built in the 80s and was not touched since, so even though I'm pretty sure everything was clean, everything gave a bit overused impression. Nevertheless, the location is good to explore Kyoto.

Friendly staff who work hard, but the shared bathing facilities are very off putting for non- Japanese. We timed our showers for mid-afternoon when no one else seemed around to avoid being seen naked by other guests. The women's' toilets were smelly we could hear the other guests shouting and laughing late at night then from 5.39am. This drove us crazy. While not the staff's fault, there dhould be clear rules about disturbing other guests. Then, from about 6.39, hoovering and thumps by began as the staff started their daily round of cleaning. Why this has to be done early in the morning when check in is at 15:00, I don't know. I was able to ignore it, but it drove my partner mad. I wouldn't recommend this place at all, I'm afraid.which was very unpleasant and the western toilet in the men's was blocked. Worse was the noise - the walls and doors are thin and