Ryokan Sawa Ya Main Branch

旅館 さわや本店 · 京都府京都市左京区聖護院川原町25

88/100
Almost everything within a walk
Access 59Daily 41Eating 37Sights 75Nightlife 12

Somewhere you leave in the morning. Buses count as much as trains — most of what people come to Japan to see is not on a railway line.

  • Train stationJingu-marutamachi · 5 min
  • Convenience store121 m
  • Places to eat282 found

What is actually within a 10 minute walk

Straight-line distance from the building, measured against OpenStreetMap. Walking times use 80 m per minute, the convention used by Japanese property listings. Only about four in ten places in Japan have an English name in OpenStreetMap, so some names below appear in Japanese — still useful for showing to a taxi driver or matching a shopfront.

Getting around

Bus stop

18 found

Where there is no train, this is the way out. Stops on both sides of one road are counted once.

  • Kumano Jinja-mae (Kumano-jinja Shrine) 熊野神社前1 min · 116 m
  • Kyodai Byoin-mae (Kyoto Univ. Hospital) 京大病院前3 min · 224 m

Train station

1 found

Everything else you do in a day starts here.

  • Jingu-marutamachi 神宮丸太町5 min · 415 m

Daily needs

the hotel can’t do these for you

Convenience store

10 found

Open late, sells water, food, and usually has an ATM that takes foreign cards.

  • Lawson ローソン2 min · 121 m
  • FamilyMart ファミリーマート2 min · 154 m

Pharmacy / drugstore

not in this reading11 found

Getting ill is the thing most likely to ruin a trip.

  • Cocokara Fine 京大病院前調剤薬局1 min · 37 m
  • Tanpopo Pharmacy たんぽぽ薬局1 min · 45 m

Supermarket

not in this reading4 found

Matters once you are staying more than a few nights.

  • SUN PLAZA Kumano Branch SUN PLAZA 熊野店2 min · 197 m
  • AEON イオン6 min · 513 m

ATMs that take foreign cards

not in this reading13 found

Seven Bank, Lawson Bank, E-net, Aeon and Japan Post accept cards issued outside Japan. Most other Japanese bank ATMs decline them, so they are not counted here. Post offices are counted, because that is where most Japan Post machines are.

  • E-net 銀行ATM | イーネット ファミリーマート聖護院 共同出張所2 min · 158 m
  • Kyoto-Daigaku-Byoin-nai Post Office 京都大学病院内郵便局2 min · 173 m

Eating

Places to eat

282 found

Restaurants and fast food. Cafes are not counted — most close before dinner.

  • Kona Mo N Izakaya Manma/Rui 粉もん居酒屋 まんま・るい1 min · 54 m
  • Kyoudai Hospital Shokudou Hannari 京大病院 食堂 はんなり1 min · 71 m
  • Raku Zen Kakinuma 楽膳柿沼1 min · 94 m

Cafe

not in this reading66 found

Somewhere to sit in the morning that is not your room.

  • Cafe Dining Mark 1 min · 89 m
  • Colorado Coffee Shop Kumano Branch Colorado Coffee Shop 熊野店1 min · 101 m

Things to see

Things to see

50 found

Attractions, museums, viewpoints, castles and monuments. Ordinary neighbourhood shrines are not counted — Japan has tens of thousands, and counting them would make every street look remarkable.

  • Araki Senri Kyouju Taikan Kinenju 荒木千里教授退官記念樹1 min · 82 m
  • Kumano Shrine 熊野神社2 min · 152 m
  • Kitagaki Kokudou Zou 北垣国道像4 min · 300 m

Public bath / onsen

1 found

Often the reason for the trip rather than a convenience.

  • sakura-yu 桜湯8 min · 661 m

Park or garden

69 found

Somewhere to walk that is not a shopping street.

  • Park 4 min · 311 m
  • Park 4 min · 314 m

Souvenir shops

not scored5 found

Shown for information only. About 3,000 are mapped for the whole country against many times that in reality, so a hit here is worth something and a miss means nothing.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

  • Kyoto Shiruku Kabushiki Kaisha 京都シルク株式会社4 min · 301 m
  • Goten Hachi Hashimotoho 御殿八ッ橋本舗7 min · 556 m

At night

material, not a verdict

Bars and nightlife

not in this reading20 found

Counted as a plus here. A property tool would count the same places as a minus.

  • Tera Koya てらこや1 min · 115 m
  • Shin No Ji 信のじ2 min · 121 m

Police box (koban)

not in this reading4 found

Staffed neighbourhood police posts. The default place to go if something goes wrong.

  • Kawabata Police Station 川端警察署5 min · 383 m
  • Koujin Kuchi Koban 荒神口交番9 min · 712 m

Currency exchange

not scored0 found

Shown for information only. 197 exchange counters are mapped for the whole country, far fewer than exist, so they are never scored. If you have a card, the ATM count above is the more reliable answer.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

None found within 800 m.

Post office

not in this reading6 found

Sends things home, and holds a Japan Post ATM that takes foreign cards — away from the cities this is often the only one within walking distance. Sub-post offices (簡易郵便局) frequently have no machine, so they are listed here but not counted as ATMs.

  • Kyoto-Daigaku-Byoin-nai Post Office 京都大学病院内郵便局2 min · 173 m
  • Kyoto Shogoin Post Office 京都聖護院郵便局3 min · 229 m

Coin lockers

not in this reading0 found

For the hours before check-in and after check-out.

None found within 800 m.

Laundromat

not scored1 found

Needed once a trip runs past a week.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

  • Coin Laundry Uddi Kawabata Nijou Branch Coin Laundry ウッディ川端二条店7 min · 566 m

The area · Gion

22 min from the centre
Places to eat within 10 min of the centre
2,493
Convenience stores · ATMs that take a foreign card
28 · 36
Bars & nightlife
803
Things to see
138
Is Gion a good area to stay? →

Other places to stay within the same walk

What this score does not include These data sets are not part of the number above. A blank here means “not checked”, never “nothing found”.
  • Flood and landslide hazard zones
  • Road and railway noise
  • Earthquake and tsunami risk
  • Prices and availability — the booking site has them
  • Reviews and ratings — we do not hold any
  • Opening hours — they change faster than a monthly import

Scored 2026-10-23 00:19 UTC against our OpenStreetMap import · preset: sightseeing

Listed by 楽天トラベル, confirmed 2026-09-10.