Pre-Check-in: Hideyoshi Story, Peasant to Ruler

Hotel check-ins typically start at 3:00 PM. That single "blank hour" beforehand might just be the key to making your entire Kyoto trip dramatically more interesting. Set at Toyokuni Shrine, easily accessible from Kyoto Station, this tour allows you to touch the depths of Kyoto's history in just 60 minutes.

The highlight of this journey is the encounter with the "Toyokuni Festival Folding Screen" housed in the Treasure Museum. Remarkably, this screen vividly depicts "famous modern Kyoto landmarks" that you might be planning to visit—such as Sanjusangen-do and Kiyomizu-dera—exactly as they appeared 400 years ago.