Kyoto

Kyoto 京都市
Designatit ceety
Kyoto Ceety
Frae tap left: Tō-ji, Gion Matsuri in modren Kyoto, Fushimi Inari-taisha, Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kiyomizu-dera, Kinkaku-ji, Ponto-chō and Maiko, Ginkaku-ji, Ceetyscape frae Higashiyama an Kyoto Touer
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Location o Kyoto in Kyoto Prefectur
Kyoto
Coordinates: 35°0′42″N 135°46′6″E
Kintra	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefectur	Kyoto Prefectur
Govrenment
• Mayor	Daisaku Kadokawa
Area
• Total	827.83 km2 (319.63 sq mi)
Population  (October 1, 2015)
• Total	1,474,570
• Density	1,800/km2 (4,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
- Tree	Weeping Willow, Japanese Maple an Katsura
- Flouer	Camellia, Azalea an Succar Cherry
Phone nummer	075-222-3111
Address	488 Teramachi-Oike, Nakagyō-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyōto-fu 604-8571
Website	www2.city.kyoto.lg.jp/koho/eng/index.html kyoto.travel

Kyoto (京都, Kyōto, "Caipital ceety") (Japanese pronunciation: [kʲoːto] ( listen)) is a ceety locatit in the central pairt o the island o Honshu, Japan. It haes a population close tae 1.5 million. Umwhile the Imperial caipital o Japan for mair nor ane thoosan years, it is nou the caipital ceety o Kyoto Prefectur locatit in the Kansai region, as well as a major pairt o the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan aurie. Kyoto is kent as the thoosan-year caipital an aw.

Name

In Japanese, the ceety haes been cried Kyō (京), Miyako (都) or Kyō no Miyako (京の都). In the 11t century, the ceety wis renamed Kyoto ("caipital ceety"), efter the Cheenese wird for caipital ceety, jingdu (京都). Efter Edo wis renamed Tokyo (meanin "Eastren Caipital") in 1868, Kyoto wis kent for a short time as Saikyō (西京, meanin "Wastren Capital").

An obsolete spellin for the ceety's name is Kioto; it wis umwhile kent tae the Wast as Meaco or Miako (Japanese: 都; miyako, meanin "the seat of Imperial palace" or "capital".). Anither term commonly uised tae refer tae the ceety in the pre-modren period wis Keishi (京師), meanin "metropolis" or "caipital".

Geografie

Hairst in Kyoto attracts throngs o tourists tae temples lik this.

Kyoto is locatit in a valley, pairt o the Yamashiro (or Kyoto) Basin, in the eastren pairt o the muntainous region kent as the Tamba hielands. The Yamashiro Basin is surroondit on three sides bi muntains kent as Higashiyama, Kitayama an Nishiyama, wi a heicht juist abuin 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) abuin sea level. This interior positionin results in het simmers an cauld winters. Thare are three rivers in the basin, the Ujigawa tae the sooth, the Katsuragawa tae the wast, an the Kamogawa tae the east. Kyoto Ceety takes up 17.9% o the land in the prefecture wi an aurie o 827.9 km²

The oreeginal ceety wis arranged in accordance wi traditional Cheenese feng shui follaein the model o the auncient Cheenese caipital o Chang'an (present-day Xi'an). The Imperial Palace faced sooth, resultin in Ukyō (the richt sector o the caipital) bein on the wast while Sakyō (the left sector) is on the east. The streets in the modren-day wards o Nakagyō, Shimogyō, an Kamigyō still follae a grid pattern.

The day, the main business destrict is locatit tae the sooth o the auld Imperial Palace, wi the less-populatit northren aurie retainin a far greener feel. Surroondin auries dae no follae the same grid pattern as the centre o the ceety, tho streets throughoot Kyoto share the distinction o haein names.

Kyoto sits atop a muckle naitural watter table that provides the ceety wi ample freshwater wells. Due tae muckle scale urbanization, the amunt o rain drainin intae the table is dwindlin an wells athort the aurie are dryin at an increasin rate.

Internaitional relations

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Japan

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

The ceety o Kyoto haes a sister ceety relationship wi:

• Boston, Unitit States
• Paris, Fraunce (Friendship Pledge ceety)
• Cologne, Germany
• Cuzco, Peru
• Konya, Turkey
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Florence, Italy
• Kiev, Ukraine
• Xi'an, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (Friendship ceety)
• Guadalajara, Mexico
• Zagreb, Croatie

Freemit airtins

• Kyoto Travel Guide — Ceety o Kyoto an Kyoto Tourism Cooncil
• Kyoto Ceety Local Govrenment (in Inglis)
• Kyoto Archived 2005-07-16 at the Wayback Machine Guide includin interactive cairt & ower 1,300 pictures.
• Kyoto's temples & shrines Archived 2011-09-13 at the Wayback Machine— Information on 26 temples an shrines.