Restaurants
14 restaurants in Kyoto and Nara chosen for corporate groups: kaiseki ryotei, starred counters, summer river terraces and event estates facing the Yasaka pagoda.
Higashiyama
A historic grand hotel (1890) set against the Higashiyama hills, home to the largest banquet hall in Kyoto Prefecture: Mizuho, 1,650 m² and up to 2,000 theater-style. The place where Kyoto hosts state dinners and major conventions.
Kawaramachi
A 321-room grand hotel in central Kyoto (Kawaramachi-Oike), connected to the subway. Its 1,227 m² main hall seats up to 1,500 theater-style, supported by a dozen banquet spaces: one of downtown's most complete convention tools.
Ambience · KyotoHigashiyama
A 52-room luxury hotel opened in August 2024 on the Higashiyama hillside near Kiyomizu-dera, set in a bamboo grove. The only Kyoto hotel with a Noh stage (the Bamboo Pavilion, design supervised by Kengo Kuma), plus a natural hot spring, spa and kaiseki restaurant: a place for small executive groups rather than for meetings.
7 days · Tokyo · Kyoto
This 7-day executive committee trip combines three nights in Tokyo and three nights in Kyoto: business meetings and company visits subject to availability in Tokyo, then strategy sessions and private cultural experiences in Kyoto. Designed for 8 to 25 executives, it includes private transfers, Green Car Shinkansen, interpreters and a dedicated coordinator available at all times. Arrival at Haneda or Narita, departure from Kansai International Airport.
From €8,900 per person, excluding flights
8 days · Tokyo · Hakuba · Kyoto · Okinawa
This 8-day trip for top performers brings together four sides of Japan: Tokyo, the Japanese Alps in Hakuba, Kyoto and Okinawa's west coast. Transfers are realistic: Hokuriku Shinkansen to Nagano then coach to Hakuba, Shinkansen and Thunderbird train via Tsuruga to Kyoto, and a domestic flight from Itami to Naha in about 2 hours. Designed for winter, from mid-December to March, with skiing in Hakuba and mild weather in Okinawa, for 15 to 60 participants.
From €9,600 per person, excluding international flights
5 days · Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
This 5-day incentive follows the thread of Japanese video games from Tokyo to Osaka, by way of Kyoto, Nintendo's home town. It combines a talk with a Japanese industry professional, the gaming floor of Shibuya Parco, game centres, a retro stop in Akihabara, an inter-team esports tournament, a game-soundtrack karaoke night and a day at Super Nintendo World before a gala evening in Osaka. Built for 20 to 100 people from a publisher, a studio, a tech company or an esports team.
From €3,900 per person, excluding flights
Kyoto
A seasonal kaiseki dinner served in a private room of a traditional Kyoto ryotei, with each course, its tableware and its meaning explained through an interpreter.
About 2.5 hours · 4–60 pax
From ¥42,500 per person
Kyoto
A private kaiseki dinner in one of Kyoto's teahouse districts, with traditional dance, conversation and ozashiki games hosted by maiko and geiko, with an interpreter at your side.
About 2 hours · 6–80 pax
From ¥45,500 per person
Kyoto
A private visit to a historic sake brewery in Fushimi, south Kyoto, followed by a guided tasting of several sake styles paired with small bites.
1.5 to 2 hours · 6–80 pax
From ¥25,000 per person
Executive committees (6 to 10). The counter at one-star Sokkon Fujimoto can be booked exclusively for 8 to 9 guests. Two-star Kikunoi Roan pairs a 9-seat counter with three tatami rooms (up to 20 in all), and Kikunoi Honten hosts the signature dinner of an executive retreat in one of its ten tatami rooms. For lunch after Arashiyama, Tempura Matsu takes a small group of executives; it closes on Wednesdays and cash payment needs planning.
Groups of 20 to 40. Pontocho Robin can be booked out for about 25 seated (20 to 50 depending on layout), facing the Kamo River. Moritaya Kiyamachi serves wagyu sukiyaki to groups of 35 to 40 in a house founded in 1869. In the Karasuma-Oike business district, Kushikura Honten offers banquet courses from ¥3,000 to ¥7,000 in a machiya over a hundred years old.
Groups of 80 and more. THE SODOH HIGASHIYAMA KYOTO has five rooms for 48 to 144 seated and can be booked out entirely, with group menus from ¥10,000 to ¥30,000 including drinks. Ganko Takasegawa Nijoen (88 seated) and Nanzenji Junsei (an 88-seat hall, tofu cooking easy to adapt for vegetarians) suit a large lunch or dinner. Minokichi Honten Takeshigero offers the Nanae great hall with its cypress stage for a geiko or maiko dance; in Nara, the Oriental Room at Kikusuiro seats 100, 35 minutes from Kyoto.
Seasons and timing
THE SODOH HIGASHIYAMA KYOTO: its Higashiyama room takes 144 seated or 220 standing, and the whole estate can be booked out. Outside the city, Kikusuiro in Nara seats 100 and takes 200 standing; downtown, Ganko Takasegawa Nijoen and Nanzenji Junsei reach 88.
Yes: THE SODOH (the whole estate), Pontocho Robin (20 to 50 guests), Kikusuiro in Nara, the Sokkon Fujimoto counter (8 to 9) and K36 The Bar & Rooftop on request. Ganko Takasegawa Nijoen does not offer buy-outs, but its 88-seat banquet hall keeps the group to itself.
Nanzenji Junsei, a yudofu and yuba specialist, serves soy-centred cooking that is easy to adapt and reasonably priced (menus from ¥3,850 to ¥16,500). For ryotei such as Kikunoi Honten, we send every restriction several days before the meal.
In Kibune, the Hirobun kawadoko runs from May to late September, with dinner by the irori hearth the rest of the year. In town, the kawayuka at Moritaya Kiyamachi (up to 65 guests) and Pontocho Robin open from May to mid-October; we always keep an indoor room in case of rain.
¥3,000 to ¥7,000 at Kushikura Honten, ¥7,700 to ¥17,600 for sukiyaki at Moritaya, ¥8,800 to ¥16,500 for a Pontocho Robin banquet. A ryotei kaiseki costs ¥16,200 to ¥27,000 at Minokichi (plus 20% service) and ¥22,000 to ¥110,000 at Kikunoi Honten (plus 15%).
Event brief
A few details are enough for a first proposal. A dedicated project manager replies within 48 business hours.
