About
About Aurelle Gion
Tatami rooms, a cedar bath fed by spring water, and a kaiseki dinner served in your room.
Aurelle Gion · The Hotel
The inn
Three townhouses and a garden
The houses were built in the 1920s for tea merchants. We joined them around the garden in 2019 and kept the timber frames, the paper screens and the stone lanterns.
- Two cedar baths
- Kaiseki dinner
- Japanese breakfast
- Shiatsu
At the hotel
What is here
The things guests use most.
Two cedar baths
Book either one for 45 minutes, just for you, any time from 6am to midnight.
Kaiseki dinner
Nine small courses, served in your room or at our counter.
Japanese breakfast
Grilled fish, miso soup, rice and pickles. A Western breakfast is also available.
Shiatsu
A therapist comes to your room. Book by 5pm for the same evening.
Tea room
A four-and-a-half mat tea room where our host serves matcha each afternoon.
Yukata and slippers
For wearing around the inn and to the baths.
The rhythm
How a day here goes
Bathe before dinner. Eat slowly. Your futons are laid out while you are at the counter. Breakfast is at the hour you choose.
Our okami, the host, has run inns in Gion for twenty years. She will meet you at the door.
- Yasaka Shrine
- Kiyomizu-dera
- Gion-Shijo station
- Kyoto station
Book direct
Why book with us
The room is the same either way. Booking here gets you a few things the travel sites can not give you.
No booking fees. Pay at the hotel.
This season
Autumn in Kyoto, with a tea ceremony
Stay two nights in November and we add a private tea ceremony in our tea room and an early visit to a temple garden. 2 nights minimum.