looking for traditional style japanese accomadation, with two meals, nice surroundings and a good price. can you help.

Thank you
Sam

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IN KYOTO
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Use the word "ryokan" in the search box on this page to find various discussions, and also the "contact me" page has a discussion of ryokan.

I'm looking for a small wa-fu house to rent somewhere in central Kyoto: Southern Sakyo-ku or Nakakyo-ku. Wondering if you have any recommendations for a fudosan that deals with wa-fu accomodation and not just modern danchi's and mansions? :-)

Kyoto Machiya Club in my links over on the right helps set up machiya rentals. 京都ライフ is one of the bigger fudosan along with mini mini, and Tsurukawa-san (tel 722-1117) set up our deal. Leases are usually 2 years, have lots of shiki-kin and rei-kin, and of course a Japanese guarantor.

Nils,

thanks for your pointer. I contacted the Machiya club (I've been at their old digs a few years ago) but unfortunately they have not been so responsive.
Part of the problem is perhaps that I used my Yahoo mail account to send a message in Japanese (with a short note in English) and it seems that only the English note got through ungarbled. May have been a mistake, because I got a message back saying, "Please only contact us in Japanese!". I replied in Japanese, saying I had contacted in Japanese, but there had a mistake, but haven't heard again. Maybe I should phone instead :-).

Another friend has recommended 京都ライフ, and I was there last night looking at the 物件情報 outside because it was closed. I'll perhaps give them a call. Thanks for the URL, didn't know about that but it's a bit help. And it's nice to know that one foreigner is a satisfied customer.
I'm aware of the 敷金　and 礼金 custom and have mentally prepared myself to be bled ;-).
And yes I'm aware a Japanese guaranter is needed.
The 不動産 I was dealing with last weekend was trying to tell I'd need two, even though I had a personal introduction via a friend who has recently bought a house. Mileage varies!

May I ask you whether you are happy to have chosen to live in a more traditional house. I've also considered apartments but given that Kyoto is one of the few places in the world one can experience life in a 町屋　it seems a waste not to try it.
Has it turned out to be a lot of extra work you don't enjoy or has it turned into a cherished weekend hobby for you?

Thanks again for your helpful response.

That was supposed to read "big help" not "bit help".

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