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A Kyoto City Bus 206 bound for Kiyomizu-dera and Kyoto Station
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By train and bus.

City Bus 206 from Kyoto Station to Higashiyama-Yasui, then a five-minute walk. Four stations are within a walk of the house.

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Nearest stations

Four stations, all within a walk.

Gion-Shijo StationKeihan Main Line12 minutes on foot
Kyoto-Kawaramachi StationHankyu Kyoto Line15 minutes on foot
Higashiyama StationTozai subway line15 minutes on foot, or 5 by bus
Kiyomizu-gojo StationKeihan Main Line15 minutes on foot, or 5 by bus
Step by step

From Kyoto Station by bus.

About 20 minutes on the bus, then a walk of roughly five minutes.

A note on luggage. Kyoto city buses have no luggage racks and very little floor space, and the 206 is one of the busiest routes in the city. With large cases, a taxi is the easier arrival — or send the bags ahead. See taxi and private car, and the luggage questions on the Stays page.

  1. From Kyoto Station, take City Bus 206 from the terminal outside the JR Central Entrance. The boarding point is stop D2. Board the 206 headed for Gion (祇園) via Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺) — the anti-clockwise route. The clockwise 206, signed via Daitoku-ji, goes the other way around the city.

    A Kyoto City Bus 206 with its destination board reading Kiyomizu-dera and Kyoto Station
    Map of the Kyoto Station bus terminal, with boarding point D2 for City Bus 206 marked

  2. Alight at Higashiyama-Yasui stop (東山安井). From the front door it is the second stop after Gion; the ride from Kyoto Station takes about 20 minutes in normal traffic.

    The Higashiyama-Yasui bus stop sign
    The Higashiyama-Yasui bus stop seen from the pavement

  3. Walk south, against the direction the bus was travelling, and you will pass the torii gateway of Yasui Konpira-gu shrine on your left.

    The stone torii gateway to Yasui Konpira-gu shrine on Higashioji-dori

  4. Cross the road to the torii on the other side. This is the Kodai-ji Minami Mon-dori (高台寺南門通り) junction — the spire visible above the rooftops belongs to Yasaka Pagoda.

    The torii at the Kodai-ji Minami Mon-dori junction, with Yasaka Pagoda visible beyond
    The Kodai-ji Minami Mon-dori junction seen from the crossing

  5. Go up the slope to the left of the gateway.

    The sloping lane rising to the left of the torii gateway

  6. Take the first lane on your left.

    The first turning on the left off the slope

  7. Follow that lane down.

    The narrow residential lane leading towards the houses

  8. Turn into the first lane on your right and you have arrived. BenTen West is the house on the left, BenTen East the one beyond it.

    The final right turn into the lane where the two houses stand
    The dark timber frontages of BenTen West and BenTen East on their lane

Going back, and out for the day.

Turn right as you leave the houses, then take the road at the end of the lane. Take the first lane on the left, turn left onto the main road, and the Higashiyama-Yasui stop is straight ahead, outside the Kyoto Shinkin Bank branch. Buses from this stop also run to Gion, Shijo Keihan and Kyoto Station.

The lane outside the houses, looking right towards the main road
The Higashiyama-Yasui bus stop for buses towards Kyoto Station
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Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0822

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