The location was okay, but it’s in a residential area so it isn’t anything special. The room size was fine for the price and I thought the deep bathtub was especially nice. The hotel entrance door has a key code, so look for it in your email before you arrive. Check-in was pretty easy; the person who helped us spoke good English and fluent Mandarin Chinese.
I have two points of concern about staying here. These are the reasons I would NOT recommend it, even though it was reasonable otherwise.
1. There was no one to check us out at check-out time. We waited at the desk for about 20 minutes and no one came. There was also no one at the desk when we left for and arrived back from dinner (1 hour). I noticed several other guests waiting around the desk to be checked-in/out.
2. The smoking area is located right next to the laundry. We paid 200 yen for the coin-op dryer, and then all of our clothes came out smelling strongly like cigarette smoke. This doesn’t matter to me as much, but it seems thoughtless to put an ashtray next to a dryer in a room with no open windows.
Overall, decent hotel for the price. It’s in a below average location for a tourist in Kyoto, but the accommodations are nice enough. Service was not the best, although it could have just been an “off” day.