Four Seasons Hotel Kyoto

The chapel seats up to 120. The ballroom is 366 square metres and divides into smaller rooms, and the hotel also stages small dinners in the tea house on Shakusui-en pond. Fix the layout against your guest count with the wedding specialist before you hold a date.

The hotel publishes ballroom wedding packages from 75,900 yen per person against a minimum spend, and some packages add about 36,300 yen a guest for the reception. Flowers, attire, hair and the officiant are priced on top of that.

Yes. Four Seasons keeps a multilingual wedding specialist on site who handles the planning, the ceremony script and the vendor bookings in English. For couples travelling in, that is the practical reason this hotel shortlists itself.

No venue in Japan can marry you. A marriage is legal only once the kon-in todoke is filed at a city or ward office, so most couples arriving from abroad register at home first and treat the Kyoto ceremony as the celebration.

Late March to mid-April and mid-November are the weeks everyone wants, and Kyoto hotels at this tier are routinely full 12 to 18 months out for them. Room rates peak on exactly those dates, so the guest bill moves with the calendar too.

In the hotel, which is the simple answer, and Higashiyama has a deep range of smaller hotels, machiya rentals and ryokan within a ten-minute taxi ride for guests who want a lower nightly rate.