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Kyoto Mayor Matsui

KYOTO, Japan, Jan. 14 Kyodo - Kyoto Mayor Koji Matsui explains during a press conference in Kyoto on Jan. 14, 2025, about the city government's decision to raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from March 2026, setting the maximum rate at a sharply higher 10,000 yen ($64) per person per night. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Mayor Matsui

Kyoto Mayor Koji Matsui explains during a press conference in Kyoto on Jan. 14, 2025, about the city government's decision to raise its lodging tax for people staying at hotels and other accommodations from March 2026, setting the maximum rate at a sharply higher 10,000 yen ($64) per person per night.

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Kyoto introduces lodging tax on tourists

Photo taken on Oct. 1, 2018, shows a poster at a hotel in Kyoto informing guests that the ancient western Japan city began levying taxes on visitors staying at hotels, traditional inns and private lodgings to improve tourism services there. Kyoto is the third municipality to impose lodging taxes after Tokyo and Osaka prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo