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VMG Hotels & Unique Venues
平安神宮会館
Okazaki, Kyoto
Inside the shrine grounds, facing a nationally designated garden
What makes it special
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Shinen is not a hotel garden. It is a designated place of scenic beauty, built by a lineage of celebrated gardeners, and it changes completely between March and November.
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SEIHOU-DEN runs thirty metres of window along the garden in traditional Japanese architecture. All-weather, which matters in a city where the best months are also the wettest.
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Halls can be partitioned for twenty guests or opened out for two hundred. Take the whole building and it handles more than three hundred - among the largest in Kyoto.
About the venue
Heian Jingu Shrine Restaurant & Banquet Hall stands on the south bank of Seiho-ike Pond, inside the East Garden of Heian Jingu Shrine. It was built in 1969 to mark the shrine's 70th anniversary and reopened in 2018 after renovation, with an irimoya roof in copper that has weathered to verdigris.
The garden it faces, Shinen, is a nationally designated place of scenic beauty - a strolling garden drawing on a thousand years of Heian-kyo landscape technique, with Higashiyama borrowed as background. Weeping cherry in spring, maple in autumn, and full-height windows in every direction so the season is always in the room.
Spaces
| Space | Size and capacity |
|---|---|
| SEIHOU-DEN (large) | 324 sqm · 180 seated · 200 standing |
| SEIHOU-DEN (small) | 179 sqm · 96 seated · 120 standing |
| GEIHIN-DEN | overlooks Taiheikaku and Shobikan |
| Lobby Lounge | 234 sqm · 50 standing |
Capacities vary by layout and menu. Confirm final numbers with the venue at the time of booking.
Getting there
Three minutes on foot from Okazaki Park / Heian Jingu-mae bus stop, ten minutes from Higashiyama Station (Subway Tozai Line), twenty minutes by taxi from Kyoto Station.
97 Nishitenno-cho Okazaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8341, Japan
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Begin
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