NISHIYAMA RYOKAN Established in 1953

I took a walk around Hotel Nishiyama on a beautiful day. Taking a walk in spring time is wonderful! It's getting hot though... I walked through Kyoto Gosho which is old imperial palace. Today, the imperial palace is inTokyo. It was moved in 1869. There is a huge park inside of the Palace and everybody can go into the park. You can take a walk, sit down the bench or go running... and of course sight seeing! They have a tour with English speaking guide*. *You need to book before joining the tour. If you are interested in it, check out this website! http://sankan.kunaicho.go.jp/english/guide/koukyo.html

Hello this is our hotel staff on the picture. the staff who wearing Kimono they show our guests to the guest room and they serve dinner . and another staffs are working at the reception. we are not big hotel so we have many chance to talk with our guests and like to communicate with them . so when you see us please talk to us ! we look forward to see you at our hotel !

At Hotel Nishiyama we have public bath on the basement. This is not hot spring but our guests enjoy our public bath. we have private bathroom in every guests room. but this is quite small .so we recommend to use public bath. we have japanese Robe(YUKATA) for our guest after the public bath please try to wear japanese robe and enjoy japanese culture! we also have small robe for kids this is very cute when kids wear the japanese robe ! the picture is our public bath.

I went to Uji last week . sakura was really beautiful. we could have lunch on the boat . there are very beautiful sakura both bank of uji river. Uji is very famous for green tea and we enjoy green tea ice cream there. There are many people enjoying sakura. Japanese people enjoy sakura with having foods and drinking. which is called Hanami. sakura is almost gone now we can enjoy sakura only this week.

Almost our guests are come from another countries . we wish all our guests enjoy their stay and hope to learn some japanese culture. we had Tea ceremony at our Lobby. there are many guests could join and they could enjoy tea ceremony. I talk to the teacher and she study english by herself and worried about her english but she explain about tea ceremony for one hour in english and her english is great! Nex tea ceremony is 22nd of March.

Last weekend Kyoto is getting warm . On Sunday I went for shop at North shopping area in Kyoto. There are a lot of people walking alongside of the Kamo river. I love this weather ! Kyoto summer is too hot and winter is very cold so Spring is very beautiful and SAKURA also start to bloom. I think Kyoto best season is SAKURA season pink sakura is very beautiful and makes us happy . We found one SAKURA tree near our hotel. this sakura is special sort of sakura so it is very early to bloom . but very beautiful and make us feel spring is coming soon ! now we can not see beautiful sakura trees everywhere but maybe from end of march we can see sakura trees everywhere and Kyoto become pink coulor ! This is very very beautiful. but sakura is early to gone so Don't miss beautiful sakura Kyoto !

Do you know the Hinamatsuri? Hina Matsuri (Doll Festival) takes place on March 3 and celebrates "Girls' Day". Most families with girls display "hina-ningyo" (special dolls for Hinamatsuri) They are usually arranged on a five or seven-tiered stand covered with a red carpet. At the top are the Emperor and Empress. The next step contains three court ladies (sannin-kanjo), followed by five musicians (gonin-bayashi), two ministers (udaijin and sadaijin), and three servants ending the bottom row in a five-tiered display. There are also small pieces of furniture, small meal dishes, and other things This is the day families pray for the happiness and prosperity of their girls and to help ensure that they grow up healthy and beautiful. The celebration takes place both inside the home and at the seashore. Both parts are meant to ward off evil spirits from girls. These pics are our hina dolls at our lobby and dinning room.