Kyoto houses sleeping 8 or more

By Icy, Founder & CEO of The081
Licensed Real Estate Broker (License No. 15131) | Registered Accommodation Manager (MLIT No. F03122) | Operating in Kyoto since 2019

When 8 people share a house and leave together in the morning, the number of toilets matters more than the number of bedrooms.

Of the homes The081 manages, 3 sleep 8 or more: Hinokiya in Mibu takes up to 9, and MHK Nijo and Haku House Gosho-Nishi take up to 8 each. All 3 are let as whole houses to one group at a time, and each has at least 2 toilets.

Hinokiya, Mibu, Nakagyō: up to 9

Hinokiya is a two-storey Kyoto machiya built in the 1940s and fully renovated in 2025. Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, each with its own door: a tatami room for up to 3 on futons, a room with a double bed and a room with a double-size futon. The tatami room downstairs looks onto a 40㎡ private garden and takes 2 more on futons.

There is a bath and a toilet on each floor, so 9 people share 2 toilets, and anyone who would rather not climb stairs can sleep in the ground-floor tatami room beside one of them. Hankyu Saiin and Randen Saiin stations are each about 6 minutes on foot, a taxi from Kyoto Station takes about 15 minutes, and there is no parking. Photographs are on the Hinokiya listing, and train times from Mibu to Kawaramachi, Arashiyama and Osaka are in our longer piece on Hinokiya.

MHK Nijo, Nijō, Nakagyō: up to 8

A detached three-storey house with 4 bedrooms: 2 tatami rooms and 2 Western-style rooms with wooden beds. Each room sleeps 2 on a 1.4-metre double. There are 3 toilets, and the second and third floors each have a bathroom with the shower separated from the washbasin.

JR Nijō Station, the Tōzai subway line and city bus stops are all within about 3 minutes on foot, and JR runs from Kyoto Station to Nijō in 5 to 7 minutes. Of the 3 houses, it is the quickest to reach from Kyoto Station. The bedrooms are spread over 3 floors, so guests who find stairs hard can ask in advance for a bed on the ground floor. There is no parking, but there is paid parking nearby. Photographs and common questions are on the MHK Nijo listing.

Haku House Gosho-Nishi, Kamigyō: up to 8

A three-bedroom house: one bedroom has 2 small double beds, and the other two each have 3 floor mattresses. It has 2 bathrooms, 3 separate toilets, floor heating throughout and a dishwasher in the kitchen.

The Kyoto Imperial Palace and its park are 2 minutes away on foot, Imadegawa and Marutamachi stations on the Karasuma subway line are within walking distance, and a taxi from Kyoto Station takes 15 to 20 minutes. The house is registered under the Private Lodging Business Act, which caps it at 180 nights a year; Hinokiya and MHK Nijo are licensed to open year-round. How a family lives in it over several weeks is in our piece on staying near the Imperial Palace for the KIS summer camp, and the beds and photographs are on the Gosho-Nishi listing.

Questions

• Is there a whole house in Kyoto that sleeps 9? Hinokiya, a 1940s machiya in Mibu, Nakagyō-ku, sleeps 9 in 4 bedrooms, with a bath and a toilet on each floor.

• Which of the 3 is closest to a station? MHK Nijo, about 3 minutes on foot from JR Nijō Station, which is 5 to 7 minutes by JR from Kyoto Station.

• Which has the most toilets? MHK Nijo and Haku House Gosho-Nishi have 3 each; Hinokiya has 2, one on each floor.

• Can they be booked all year? Hinokiya and MHK Nijo open year-round; Haku House Gosho-Nishi is limited to 180 nights a year.

All 3 have check-in from 15:00 and check-out by 10:00, and all are booked on Airbnb through the link on each listing page.