Koyasan Syukubo Ekoin

This temple stay is amazing. Vegetarian breakfast and dinner was great. The morning prayer and fire ritual was great to take part in. They also offered an afternoon mediation tutorial. There was a night tour for the cemetery, however I did not take part. It was a little concerning that the English tour was ¥1000 yen more than the Japanese tour. Overall I highly recommend this place.

Todo muy bien

寺廟獨特入住體驗，有很多項目可以體驗。前台接待人員可以説英文。位置很好。但就是房間隔音很差，晚上可以聽到隔壁的聲音。

服務好 熱情 專業 商業化

We reserved a one night stay at Ekoin after reading so many fantastic reviews. The facility lodging part was amazing ($598) as we splurged for the suite with private Onsen, private bathroom, private patio and more than 50 square meters or traditional tatami room. The vegan cuisine was more interesting than good to our taste but it feeds you well. The ceremonies were great only if they did not decided to videotape the entire day and put cameras in our nose at all time. I had to stand up and go to see the videotapers and ask them to stop . For us, it was a great time to meditate and immerge in the culture. At that time, we felt like the center of a reality TV show and that was decreasing our experience by 50%. Those ceremonies should be NO CAMERA, NO CELLPHONE...you don't visit those temple like or visit a zoo so refrain from having camera and you temple refrain from having professional video taper with camera in the nose of the pilgrims. We don't come for this.

We absolutely loved our 2 night temple stay, we travelled with our disabled son and the monks could not have been more kind or accommodating. We wore socks rather than slippers, found the futons excellent and the food was incredible (even though we didn’t know what we were eating). There was a touristy element ( can pay for prayer sticks, tours etc) but they do explain that the services and rituals are part of their daily life which we were grateful to experience. Overall an incredible abs very special experience

The place is strictly vegan and primarily soy, very few real vegetables, if any! I'm lucky I brought food for myself but I didn't bring enough. It's run by young men. Bring your own slippers as their shoes are large and didn't stay on going up or down stairs. The stairs are steep. The doors opening and closing are loud and wake you up. The fire ceremony was beautiful but the drum was earsplittingly loud and there was not enough ventilation. The gas heater in the room has no ventilation and smells like gas. They have no extra blankets. I see the prices are very high. For this I should have booked a better place. Oh,! Also the futon was very old and lumpy. Pillow al as o uncomfortable. This is my second temple stay and a huge step down from the kind people in Magome. A travel agent booked this for me but there was no disclosure on the vegan and other details. It was a 2.5 hr private car ride from Kyoto and will be 2 HR to Osaka station. The whole thing must have easily exceed $800. The bathroom down the hall had no door, only on the toilet section.

The monks do a really nice job here. They have a program where you can do a meditation around 4:30pm, dinner, and then a night tour of the cemetery. In the morning you can participate in the morning prayers, a fire ritual, and then have breakfast. The room was great, and the service is next level. The monks serve the food in your room and they come in to move the table and put our your beds and then in the morning they come in to put everything away. And my friend and I have slept in the traditional Japanese bedding before and had more Western beds during this trip, but both commented later that this night was probably the best sleep both of us had the whole trip. It was super quiet, and sometimes simple technology is better. The heat is a space heater and we were able to control the temperature in a our room really easily that way.

Lovely experience staying in the temple. The building is lovely and the room was a nice size (I chose a family room for a single) but may have been small for more than two people. The room was cozy with a lovely view of the gardens and it was warm with its own heater (note the building is not heated, only the rooma are - take warm clothes if it is winter). The shared bathroom was nice and very clean. The food was tasty (breakfast moreso than dinner). It was interesting attending the afternoon meditation and morning prayers and fire ceremony. The staff were friendly and helpful. Also, I did the night tour of the cemetry (run by the temple) and it was definitely worthwhile. I'd definitely go back to this temple.