Originally Posted by
ualstar
Thank you so much for such a detailed description of how to get to this laundry facility. I was trying to avoid having to take the hotel shuttle to a laundry facility near the Gion Shijo area. I will check with the hotel concierge about the laundry detergent. I have read that some machines do not require you to add detergent. This may be one of them. Much appreciated.
You're welcome. I even found this pic so you know what it looks like. There is one 'regular' looking top loading machine tucked back in a corner (you can see it through the window to the right of the doors in the pic) that I don't think anyone uses that had a big sign on it not to use detergent. The big, main, front loaders had nowhere to put and no opportunity to use detergent. And, despite being able to buy absolutely everything from vending machines in Japan, laundry detergent was the exception which led me to believe the machines somehow did it automatically.
Here is the pic:
