KYOTO, JAPAN – It’s quite late when the cab we hail outside Kyoto’s main rail station deposits us at a small boat landing on the Oigawa River in a remote area of this ancient city known as Arashiyama. We admire the beach-ball-shaped moon’s reflection bouncing off the black water while waiting for a boat to take us to Hoshinoya Kyoto, a traditional inn known as a ryokan that is the talk of the Japanese hotel industry.