（parallel daily oasis）
Travel isn’t always about chasing far-off horizons. Sometimes, it’s about gently sliding into someone else’s everyday life—one that exists in the very same world, perhaps just a stone’s throw away.
「someone, 」 is a hotel brand designed for trying on a "what-if" lifestyle. Much like crashing at the home of a friend who knows how to charm their way through local life, you’ll stay in rooms shaped by distinct obsessions and philosophies, discovering comforts you never knew you needed. That single night might just nudge your own daily routine, offering a fresh perspective or a new set of choices.
At 「someone, kyoto」, each guest room is given its own name and motif.
For this project, approximately 200 original paper-cut motifs were created, from which motifs were carefully selected to match each room and item. Like a paper cutout shaped from a single square sheet, this hotel is also composed of collected fragments—of the passions, preferences, and everyday habits of someone living in Kyoto.
(stay)
What exists here is not simply a hotel room meant merely for sleeping and staying overnight. It is a tiny "someone's room," seeped with the personal values and subtle obsessions of someone who lives, works, and creates in Kyoto.
When visiting someone’s home, you might find yourself drawn to a small object resting on a shelf, or find the music playing in the background strangely sticking in your mind. You might be deeply moved by a passage in a book you casually picked up. Through moments like these, touching upon tastes and perspectives you never knew before, you rediscover your own preferences and quirks. someone, kyoto wants to create a stay filled with moments just like that.
Some of the items placed in the guest rooms can be purchased right on the spot. If you find something you fall in love with during your stay, we hope you take it home into your own daily life. A small insight discovered on your journey might just carry over into your daily routine after you return home.
◯ interior design：monoya
◯ graphic design：ikki kobayashi
(catalog)
I love looking at people's rooms. A room reflects the person who lives there.
A room catches and holds the gestures of the person living in it. If there were something like 3D data accumulating every single trace of the inhabitant's behavior within the space, I believe the room itself would be its negative. Over time, a room is shaped along the contours of whoever lives there.
And people decorate their rooms. No matter how poor or wealthy, everyone brightens their living space in their own way. Whatever form it takes, within it dwells an open warmth striving to enrich daily life, alongside small, subtle obsessions.
Looking at a room allows you to (gently) sense what the person living there finds beautiful, what they hold dear, and what they love. I wanted to make someone, into that kind of hotel. Rather than relying on luxurious furnishings or an extraordinary worldview, could we not create the richness of a hotel in the same way we do in our everyday lives? The rooms of someone, are filled with the quiet, casual things we usually cherish and consider true richness. And this catalog serves as a guide, of sorts, to help you get to know these rooms. We have compiled information on the makers, the background of their creation, and the meticulous attention to detail behind each item found in this hotel.
(magazine)
Layers of time build up within a city. Not just hundreds of years of history, but a shop someone keeps returning to, a scenery someone holds dear, a casual moment that lingers in someone’s memory. It is the accumulation of these tiny moments of time that shapes the contours of this city. Even as a passerby, you are no exception. You leave behind a tiny moment, a memory of your own, in this city.
What is daily routine for someone may become a journey for someone else. Gathered here is someone, kyoto’s travel guide, created to help you discover such chance encounters.
（01）（Public Baths in a
Moratorium City）
ーSanjiro Minato
（02）（An Afternoon Detour）
ーMiyuki Ota
（03）（The Cultural Shock of Chickpea Croquettes）
ーErina Kishi
（04）（My Usual, a Special, an Ordinary Bowl）
ーYuki Fukutomi
（05）（Having a Place to Come Home To）
ー Takumi Bando
（06）（"Kyoto is One Giant University" Theory I Heard at Chikyuya）
ーMakoto Ishito
（07）（Passing Through the Temple）
ーNile Kimura
（08）（The Back of Youth is Not Yet in Sight）
ーYoshiki Ukai
（09）（Dumplings, Hydrangeas, and a New Life）
ーDaiki Tsutsumi
（10）（The Magic of the Sento）
ーYuya Mukumoto
（11）（A Time-Traveling Cup of Coffee）
ーⓁ
（12）（"Where Are You From, Really?"）
ーShoko Ryuzaki
(faq)
(access)
🚶 About a 12-minute walk from Kyoto Station
Exit Kyoto Station via the Hachijo Exit and walk straight south along Karasuma Street, heading away from the station. Continue past the Kujo Karasuma intersection (near Kujo Subway Station). After crossing the intersection, turn left at the corner with the butcher shop on your left, and the hotel will be a short walk ahead.
🚕 About a 4-minute taxi ride from Kyoto Station
If you are traveling with large luggage, we recommend taking a taxi. Taxis are readily available at the taxi stand outside the Hachijo Exit of Kyoto Station.
Please tell the driver: "Higashikujo Minami-Karasuma-cho, just south of the Kujo Karasuma intersection on Karasuma Street."
🚇 About a 4-minute walk from Kujo Station (Karasuma Subway Line)
This is the most convenient route to the hotel. Take the Karasuma Subway Line one stop south from Kyoto Station and get off at Kujo Station. Exit through Exit 3 and head up to street level.
Once outside, walk south along Karasuma Street, with the large Kujo Street intersection behind you. Continue straight for about 3–4 minutes, then turn left at the corner with the butcher shop on your left. The hotel is just a short walk ahead.
(map)
A Kyoto travel guide map proposed by someone, kyoto. You can download it to your own Google Maps to use during your trip.
When you want to land a truly amazing meal while traveling, you are better off asking a taxi driver or a coffee shop owner than looking at a guidebook. If you happen to learn about the places they personally frequent, consider yourself lucky. Even without flashy presentation, you will likely encounter spots that are genuinely loved by the city.
Somehow, cities have multiple layers, and there are places that are hard to reach as a first-time visitor. For this map, we asked people living in this city to share their favorite places with us. Not so much "recommendations," but places they personally love. Subtle obsessions welcomed. They might not be the standard tourist spots, but places like these just might add a little spice to your journey.
someone's neighborhood
We have gathered spots around someone, kyoto that can be explored on foot or by bicycle.
These are all places our hotel staff actually visit and frequent in their daily lives. Please wander through Kyoto not as a tourist, but through the eyes of someone who lives here.
someone's spot
At someone, kyoto, we collaborate with creators active primarily in Kyoto to craft a stay experience that lets you "try on" Kyoto’s everyday life through their individual perspectives. This map gathers places connected to the collaborators involved with someone, kyoto. Walk the streets of Kyoto as if retracing the steps of someone’s life.
someone magazine
We have compiled the spots featured in each column of "someone, magazine". What is everyday life for someone might become a journey for another. This travel guidebook helps you encounter such serendipitous moments. Please enjoy your journey with someone, kyoto alongside this magazine.
someone's table
We asked the collaborators of someone, kyoto to share their favorite places to eat and drink.
A familiar spot for someone; a familiar taste woven into someone’s life. Rather than "recommendations" curated for tourists, please visit these tables with the feeling of softly stepping into someone’s daily life in Kyoto.
📩 someone.kyoto@hotel-she.com
📍〒601-8041
京都府京都市南区東九条南烏丸町36-19