Beginning Monday, visitors to Kyoto will be hit with an increase to their lodging bills as the city's accommodation tax goes into effect at over 3,200 hotels, traditional inns, and private lodgings.
Kyoto will become the third local government in Japan to implement a lodging tax after Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture.
Visitors at establishments with room rates of under ¥20,000 per night will be charged ¥200 per person, per night. Rooms between ¥20,000 and ¥50,000 will charge ¥500 per person per night and places charging over ¥50,000 will come with a tax of ¥1,000 per person per night.