KIORI Portfolio | KIORI Hotels: Accommodation combining Kyoto cultural features and sensory experiences, offering a range of mid-to-high-end and business hotels.

KIORI Portfolio is a brand new hotel portfolio launched in 2025, offering three high-end, mid-range, and business-oriented series: COLLECTION, HOTEL, and EXEC. The brand design combines traditional Kyoto aesthetics with modern living functionality, offering both highly designed and affordable business travel options as well as small luxury series that provide exquisite service.

【KIORI Portfolio】KIORI Hotel Series Brand Locations Summary

Quick overview: Service features and basic information about the KIORI Portfolio series

The brand name Kiori is derived from the Japanese words for joy (Ki) and weaving (Ori). With the core concept of Kyoto as a place where stories are woven, the brand aims to transform the details of life on the journey into delicate threads, weaving them into the totem of the customer's life. It emphasizes a deep travel experience that connects memories and time and space. All of its locations are concentrated in Kyoto, a city with rich cultural heritage. Each location is dedicated to integrating Kyoto culture and providing different sensory stimulation and experience themes.

In 2025, the KIORI brand portfolio will simultaneously launch three brand series: KIORI Collection, KIORI Hotel, and KIORI Exec. Each hotel focuses on a five-sense experience, with different cultural themes and experiential activities, covering elements such as fragrance, food, and wine tasting. All hotels will be equipped with long-stay friendly facilities such as coin-operated washing machines and microwave ovens.

• Local Culture: The hotel's design incorporates the exterior of a traditional Kyoto townhouse, blending the streetscape of Kyoto with a wooden aesthetic and featuring Kyoto-style elements such as white walls and latticework.
• Five Senses Experience: The hotel offers a unique Kyoto-style accommodation experience that blends elements of Kyoto's century-old shops, such as fragrance, bread, and tea.
• Long-stay friendly: Most hotels are equipped with coin-operated washing machines, microwave ovens and other facilities suitable for long-stayers, to meet the needs of those who want to experience Kyoto in depth.
• Happy Hour: Limited Edition Collection. Free beverages are offered daily from 17:00 PM to 19:00 PM, including wines and Kyoto-style sake.

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Kyoto: The brand hub of the KIORI Collection

KIORI Collection Nishiki Hotel Brocade

Kiori Select Hotel Nishiki will grandly open in 2026. With the design theme of blending food and life, the hotel has only 12 rooms, each with a unique theme design. Through cooperation with the surrounding traditional markets and famous shops, it provides exclusive food experiences, as well as flexible check-in and check-out times and personal butler service. Located near Nishiki Market in Kyoto, you can feel the lively atmosphere of Nishiki Market and local cuisine right outside the door. Daimaru Department Store is also nearby.

KIORI Collection Gokomachidori

Kiori Select Hotel Miyukicho-dori is set to open in 2026, featuring a private residence design concept that emphasizes natural light and Japanese garden landscaping. With only 21 guest rooms, the hotel aims to allow guests to experience the changing seasons of Kyoto. It offers a VIP lounge and provides highly private and luxurious services such as artisan hand-drip coffee, guided tours, and private transfers. Located on Miyukicho-dori in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, the hotel is within walking distance of the Kamo River, Gion, temples, and traditional shops, allowing guests to immerse themselves in the ancient capital's atmosphere.

KIORI Collection Shinmachi

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Kiori Select Hotel Shinmachi-dori will grandly open on September 1, 2025. The interior design incorporates elements of Kyoto's textile culture. The hotel has a total of 26 guest rooms, offering deluxe family suites for four and spacious executive suites. The hotel also features a private lounge for guests, offering complimentary light breakfasts, a selection of wines and local Kyoto wines in the evening. Located on Shinmachi-dori, which was once home to many kimono shops in Kyoto, the hotel is a 4-minute walk from Shijo subway station and is near Foko-ji Temple, which can be visited nearby.

Kyoto: A flagship location for the KIORI Hotel brand

KIORI Hotel Takakura

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The Kiori Hotel Takakura-dori is scheduled to open in September 2025. The hotel has 35 bright and airy double and king rooms, equipped with capsule coffee machines, three-part bathroom design, local tea drinks and high-quality amenities. It is located near the Kyoto Museum of Culture and Nishiki Market, and is a 6-minute walk from Exit 5 of Karasuma Oike Station. There are many unique coffee shops and artisan workshops in the surrounding area, which is suitable for travelers who like to explore the alleys and discover hidden gems.

KIORI Hotel Higashino Toin

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The Higashi-Dōin-dori Hotel will open in September 2025. The hotel offers 36 single rooms, double rooms and twin rooms. The hotel has 24-hour front desk service, self-service laundry room and luggage storage area. Complimentary snacks, coffee and tea are available 24 hours a day. In the morning, Jinjin-dō bread and Ippo-dō tea are served. The location is near Foguang Temple and is a 4-minute walk from Exit 5 of Shijō Station.

Kyoto: The brand hub for the KIORI Exec series

Kiori Exec Teramachi

Kiori Light Travel Teramachi-dori will grandly open in 2026. It adopts a design style that blends modern industrial style with Taisho retro elements. The hotel offers 37 guest rooms and is located on Teramachi-dori in Kyoto, which is surrounded by antique shops and bookstores. It is close to Kyoto Imperial Palace and Kamo River.

Kiori Exec Muromachi

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Kiori Light Travel Muromachi-dori is scheduled to open in November 2025. The hotel offers 48 king and twin rooms with a focus on simple, comfortable and practical design. It features a 24-hour service counter and a rest room. Located in Muromachi-dori, Kyoto’s traditional textile wholesale area, it is a 5-minute walk from Exit 6 of Shijo Subway Station and is surrounded by many Michelin-recommended restaurants.

KIORI Exec Gojo (a brand of light-hearted travel clothing)

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Kiori Light Travel Gojo is scheduled to open in October 2025. Offering practical and minimalist business-style accommodations, the hotel provides 118 single, double, and twin rooms, suitable for solo travelers, families, and group tours. It features a breakfast restaurant, a multi-functional lounge, a self-service laundry room, and a microwave. Located on Gojo-dori in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, it is close to Nishi Hongan-ji Temple and the Kyoto Aquarium. The Horikawa Gojo bus stop is right outside, and Gojo subway station is a 10-minute walk away.

In-depth understanding: The brand story of the KIORI Portfolio series

• KIORI Collection｜Kiori Selection: Brocade (2026)｜Miyukicho Street (2026)｜Shinmachi Street(2025)
• KIORI Hotel | Xizhi HotelTakakura Express(2025)｜Dongdongyuan Road(2025)
• KIORI Exec｜Kiori Light Travel: Teramachi-dori (2026)｜Muromachi Street(2025)｜Gojo(2025)

KHC Hotel Operations Co., Ltd. (KHC・ホテル・オペレーションズ株式会社) was officially established in May 2025. Headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, the company focuses on hotel brand development and management. In September 2025, it launched the KIORI Portfolio, releasing three series at once: high-end, mid-range, and budget, all concentrated in the Kyoto area.

KHC Hotel Operations Co., Ltd. | KHC・Hosteel・Operations Co., Ltd.

• Official website: https://www.kiori-hotels.com/
• Address: 27th floor, Atago Green Hills Mori Tower, 2-5-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6227, Japan

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