Kiyomizu-dera Kyoto in Autumn

Kyoto, officially Kyoto City, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu…
Kyoto, officially Kyoto City, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.
  • Country: Japan
  • Region: Kansai
  • Prefecture: Kyoto Prefecture
  • Founded: 794
  • Highest elevation: 971 m (3,186 ft)
  • Lowest elevation: 9 m (30 ft)
  • Time zone: UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)

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