Kyoto current City Lodging Tax

Hi! Can anyone clarify for me please regarding this ⬇️..
Kyoto's current city lodging tax has three tiers:
200 yen per night for stays under 20,000 yen,
500 yen for stays between 20,000~50,000 yen,
1,000 yen for stays at 50,000 yen or more.

gFOR STAYS UNDER 20,000 yenh - This \20,000 is it per the whole stay duration OR the nightly rate?
Example if my 2 nights stay is \22,000 [Thus, 1 night rate of \11,000] - My tax is \200, or \500 per night?

200 yen per night for your lodging tax
So you will pay 400 yen for 2 night stay

The accommodation tax is based on the nightly rate per person, excluding VAT and onsen tax.
https://www.japan.travel/en/au/news-blog/kyoto-accommodation-tax/

Example if my 2 nights stay is \22,000 [Thus, 1 night rate of \11,000] - My tax is \200, or \500 per night?
-> 200.

Another exemple: 1 night stay, 30,000 yens for 2 persons
-> That's 15,000/person/night, resulting in a 200 yens accommodation tax per person.


One thing I am usure of is: how this is calculated for bookings that include breakfast breakfast? The accommodation tax should be based only on the room rate, but I assume that if you get a discount/package for the breakfast, it will be considered as part of the room rate.

Thanks for your response.
This is one of my Kyoto hotels:
U-Bellfs rate for 2 nights in total: \19,780 - City tax \500/pax/night stated in their email.
I also thought my tax would be \200/pax/nightc

It should really be 200 yens per night. Two years ago, I paid around 23,000 yens for 5 nights in Kyoto as a solo traveler, and 1,000 yens in total as accommodation tax. So, 200/night, even though the whole stay was > 20,000 yens.

Did you contact them by email to clarify the situation? Maybe it is just a bug in their invoice software, and you will be charged the correct amount by the staff when you check-in at the hotel.

Of you are talking about the Kyoto U bell in Jujo then I remeber tgat also for me the amount in Booking.com shown was higher than what I actually paid.
At the end of the day the difference between 200 or 500 yen is small in your trip in Japan.

If we are taking about the same hotel, I can recommend it. However it is in a quite ugly location. But it has: a Sento, subway station very closeby , big clean rooms, and a big parking lot. (There is an other Ubell in Gion. I donft know that one. And it hasnft a Sento)

Yes, Jujo one. I normally stay at Shijo Karasuma area and will be doing first 3 nights there this time too. Last 2 nights here at U-Bell Jujo. Their room size, breakfast and cheaper rate attracts me. You mentioned you ended paying lesser at check-in than what your booking.com notified. Good to hear it was a non-issue. Did you have to prompt the front desk of the discrepancy?

I didnft inform the front desk of the discrepancy.
You pay the tax at a special machine and I just remember that I was surprised that I paid less than I expected.

That said, I am not entirely sure if the accommodation tax is equally applied to residents vs tourists. I am a resident, so maybe I paid less because of that.

Resident or not, you pay the same. Fee is per person, based on the cost of the stay. So if two people stay at a hotel where the cost of the stay is 50,001 yen, the fee is 2 x 1,000 yen.
I have had two recent stays in Kyoto where different room rates applied acoss several days and was charged variously 500 and 1,000 yen depending on the day. For the rooms I had with one person, obviously only one fee was charged, for two people in a room, charge applied twice.
While my invoice for both recent stays was quite hefty due to duration and number of rooms, it still only worked out to be 1.5% of the overall cost.

OK.. Thanks. Will take note at c/in 🙏