The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
The Ritz-Carlton sits on the west bank of the Kamo river at Nijo-Ohashi, which is the most useful address in Kyoto for a wedding with guests who want to walk out of the lobby and be somewhere.
The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto is a hotel destination wedding venue in Nakagyo, Japan, hosting up to 100 guests (Aisle estimate), where a wedding for 80 guests costs about JP¥8,700,000 (our estimate), reached from Kansai International (KIX), ~90 minutes by car.
About The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto
The Ritz-Carlton sits on the west bank of the Kamo river at Nijo-Ohashi, which is the most useful address in Kyoto for a wedding with guests who want to walk out of the lobby and be somewhere.
Gion is fifteen minutes on foot across the bridge, the Nishiki market twelve, Nijo Castle a short taxi.
The hotel is built low against the river in the shape of a Kyoto merchant house, with water gardens between the wings and the Higashiyama ridge filling the view east.
Weddings run through three spaces including a chapel finished in natural materials and low light, and the hotel sells a Japanese-style programme it calls the Genuine Miyabi Wedding, with pre-wedding photography and menu work attached.
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Capacity, rooms and facilities
The ceremony
- Chapel on site
- Yes
Money
- A wedding for 80 guests
- About JP¥8,700,000, rooms extraAisle estimate
- Price
- JP¥45,000 to JP¥80,000 per headAisle estimate
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- KIX, 90 min by carAisle estimate
The spaces
- Setting
- Urban, modern, elegantAisle estimate
Venue highlights
- On the Kamo river at Nijo-Ohashi, Higashiyama ridge in view
- Three wedding spaces including a chapel in natural materials
- Japanese-style Genuine Miyabi Wedding programme
- Gion a fifteen-minute walk across the bridge
A sample wedding weekend
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- 19:00Welcome drinks on the river terrace, dinner in a private room
- 09:30Pre-wedding photographs in Gion before the crowds arrive
- 15:00Ceremony in the chapel
- 16:30Drinks in the water garden as the Higashiyama ridge goes gold
- 18:30Dinner and speeches, kaiseki or Western menu
- 11:00Nijo Castle with guests, then late checkout
Costs and booking details
- Getting there
- KIX · about 1 h 30 by carAisle estimate
Guests fly into Kansai International.
Questions about the venue
How many guests can The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto seat?+
The hotel does not publish a wedding capacity. It offers three wedding venues including the chapel, and for a riverside city hotel of this size a working ceiling of about 100 seated is a fair planning assumption until the banqueting team confirms your room.
What is the Genuine Miyabi Wedding?+
It is the hotel’s Japanese-style wedding programme, built around a traditional ceremony with attire, pre-wedding photography, a customised menu and honeymoon add-ons. The hotel quotes it on enquiry rather than publishing a price.
What does a wedding here cost?+
Nothing is published. Kyoto hotel banquets at this tier commonly run 30,000 to 50,000 yen a head for food and drink before the ceremony, flowers and attire, and the hotel quotes the whole thing as a package after an enquiry.
Is the location good for guests?+
It is the best on this list for walking. Gion is across the Nijo bridge in about fifteen minutes, Nishiki market is twelve, and Kyoto Station is a ten-minute taxi, so guests can build their own days without a car.
Can we hold the ceremony outdoors?+
The hotel’s water gardens and river terrace give an outdoor setting, but Kyoto weather makes a covered plan compulsory: June is the rainy season, August is hot and humid, and typhoons touch the Kansai region between August and October.
Could this be your venue?
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Sources and booking notes
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Sources for individual venue facts
Chapel on site: Yes
“Whether you envision a sacred ceremony in a Japanese Shinto shrine or a lavish affair in the hotel’s chapel, this luxury hotel can create a celebration unique to you.”
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