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Advertisement for the Miyako hotel and, at the bottom, the Daibutsu hotel, in T. Philip Terry, Terry's Japanese Empire (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), advertisment section
The Daibutsu Hotel, in front of Myōhōin temple in Higashiyama, opened as the Kyōbana Hotel in 1911, before changing its name a year later. Managed by the Miyako Hotel, it was marketed as a budget hotel, which "caters to the economically disposed," with European-plan rooms for one at ¥1.50 or American for ¥3.50.
The listing in Terry's Japanese Empire (1914, 400) stated "English spoken. Popular with commercial men." Based on travelogues at least, few tourists seem to have stayed the Daibutsu Hotel, but Miyako Hotel guests who found themselves in the area could take lunch there without extra charge.
The Daibutsu Hotel was in business for only a few years, shutting its doors to guests in 1914.
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