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#180 of 340 hotels in Kyoto
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MOGANA will give you the joy of “YOSOOI”, in all situation such as clothes, food and shelter. Kyoto, the center of your journey. We strongly wish you to experience the traditional culture, cherishing the traditional beauty, creating new values of architecture during your stay with us. Also enjoy each story of the facilities that we have prepared in each room. They are all gently made in Japan and wishing to share the taste of MOGANA’S heartful thoughts. “YOSOOI” meaning, to beautify and decorate in appearance, to prepare for the one’s presence, interest and departure. To make your visit very special, we will help lead you to a special journey where you can only experience here at MOGANA. MOGANA's aim is to produce an extraordinary journey, facility and a stylish story to pass on.
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MOGANA black room is the most beautiful room I have ever visited with the perfect combination of Zen, Japanese aesthetic and contemporary design.
Service is excellent with great recommendations on what to eat and do in Kyoto.
Overall, a bit on the pricey side but well worth the experience if you love Japanese minimalism at its very best
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Response from 繁田 善文, 支配人 at MOGANA
Responded 19 Feb 2020
Dear Joshua Kohh Thank you for your stay with us and your positive comments. It was our pleasure to serve you, and we had a precious time with you. Please ask anytime again if you want to our help. When you come to our hotel once again, let's talk about our recommend restaurants,cafe and anything. We are looking foward to welcoming you again with preparing new experience! MOGANA
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This hotel is beautifully designed in a minimalist style and you can read all about the architecture on the website. In spite of the rather stark approach, the room was actually very comfortable with a big bathroom, bath big enough for two and a giant bed. Breakfast was served in the room and was different each day with a mixture of Japanese and more Western items. Coffee and tea were served and there was water in the room as well as tea, coffee and some biscuits. Plenty of amenities and all high quality. You can choose whether to have your room cleaned each day or whether to just have clean towels or neither. A good nod to environmental sustainability which also affords additional privacy. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff here. We borrowed umbrellas, they made a restaurant reservation for me and confirmed it on arrival, booked taxis and organised our luggage forwarding. An extra lovely touch was that they gave me a birthday present as I was leaving. My partner had mentioned it was my birthday less than half an hour before when our breakfast was delivered so to receive a beautifully wrapped gift and card when checking out was a really nice surprise. It’s a quiet location but very convenient for some museums and with great transport links. Would definitely recommend to anyone who likes this style of architecture - we did find it a bit dark at times so I’d probably book a white room if returning!
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Date of stay: March 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Stayed at Mogana with my wife while on a trip in Kyoto.
Excellent hotel with a couple of footnotes:
The Good: * Nice hotel in a quaint part of Kyoto. * Clean, streamlined, with monotone colors (well done); hotels feels uncluttered (bare essentials when it comes to furniture, which augments to the overall zen/serene feel of this boutique hotel). Stylish boutique hotel with little to fault. * Excellent breakfast delivered to your room. Top quality ingredients and presentation. * Top notch staff, attentive, caring, perfectionist and accommodating. * Almost everything in room controlled by an electronic notepad, including room service, temperature… easy to use. * Nice bathroom.
The Bad: Nothing bad, but want to set expectations in footnotes.
Footnotes: Mogana is a quiet hotel meaning no bars/restaurants. Technically there is 1 small bar that serves drinks, but it is not the traditional bar you’d find it most hotels so I wouldn’t really count it as a bar. However, room service is available and serves only a few dishes (non-western) and small selection of drinks. But, as I mentioned earlier, food at Mogana is fresh and EXCELLENT, so quality more than makes up for selection.
Taxis in Kyoto had a hard time finding this hotel, including other locations. When/if in a taxi headed to Mogana or elsewhere, make sure to have the name of the hotel/location AND address handy to show the driver.
Kyoto has countless small streets. Japanese drive well, BUT share streets with pedestrians in those tiny streets. Most are small and narrow and look like small alleys by western standards, but are streets. When walking make sure you maintain situational sweetness of traffic. Drivers will avoid you, but often with a few inches to spare. In other words, when walking, if you’re doing to change direction, turn, move…make sure you maintain situational awareness to avoid getting hit by a car. Didn’t see any issues which is probably due to drivers/pedestrians playing by the same rules.
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Date of stay: July 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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First time back in Japan in almost three years. Decided to stay at very modern, high design, Mogana this time because of all the positive reviews. The location is not as convenient as some other hotels but it gave me a chance to see a less tourist filled side of Kyoto with lots of side alleys that made the whole experience more of a discovery. I arrived by taxi after the Haruka express from Kansai airport and check in was quick and efficient. The room looked exactly as it does in photos: Minimalist glass pod. Onsen style black granite bathtub. Lighting is a bit too fluorescent for me, for a hotel room (room 602) the lighting used should be more warm (I had to filter photos for my photo album). Aircon was also a bit loud at night. Otherwise I was quite happy with Mogana, especially liked the rock garden outside with the courtyard plants wall that allowed a peak at the sky, the frosted glass in front of the bed allowed in muted sunlight, all very clever, modern yet Japanese aesthetics.
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Date of stay: October 2022Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:Bring eye mask, staff are great and can help with booking restaurants.
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The hotel design is very special . We had a big room very neat .. the staff were very helpful and did everything in order to help us !! The breakfast was served in the room and every morning it was different . Some days we got only a Japanese breakfast and we didn’t like it .. the bathroom and toilets were great !!!
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Date of stay: April 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Breakfast is a challenge
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A beautiful minimalist hotel that whispers cool through its geometric black corridors. The rooms are either white, black or grey. All are very comfortable. The staff are superb and look equally cool, dressed head to to in Issey Miyake. There are no televisions in the rooms, nothing to detract from the zen atmosphere.
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Date of stay: November 2022Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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I spent few nights when I was in Kyoto. MOGANA has a very beautiful architecture, stylish accommodation. Everything was so perfect. And lots of warm services. The remarkable parts is a black stone bathroom. It is almost an art to see how water make paints and hear the water sounds. I also loved so much the super healthy and delicious Kyoto style breakfast which has so much seasons in the variable little dishes. ( The table is little bit too low for westerns I guess...) I wished to have a small desk in a room. When I come back Kyoto, I am sure come back again in this hotel. If you are looking for a memorable place for a Kyoto, then I think here is the place.
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Date of stay: February 2019
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Response from MOGANAs_staff, MOGANA at MOGANA
Responded 13 Jul 2019
Dear OLIVIERBB, We are overjoyed that our hotel made your stay so memorable. All staff read your review, and we were all tearing up. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your kind comments. It has put a big smile on all staff faces. Customer service is everything to us and it has made our day to hear you had such a pleasant stay. We are looking forward to welcoming you again in the near future! With kindest regards, MOGANA
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There are more places to choose from in the Kyoto area.
PRICE RANGE
HK$2,301 - HK$3,502 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
LOCATION
JapanKinkiKyoto PrefectureKyotoCity Center
NUMBER OF ROOMS
23
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