Kyoto

Kyōto was the capital of for over a millennium, and carries a reputation as the nation's most beautiful city and its cultural capital - even the national government's Agency for Cultural Affairs moved there in 2023.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Kyoto and Higashiyama.
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encompasses the urban heart of Japan's former imperial capital.
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Some of the most picturesque parts of Kyoto are…
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Northern Kyoto is graced with scores of centuries-old…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Arashiyama and South Kyoto.
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is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan.
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Southern Kyoto covers a large part of Japan's…
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kyoto Imperial Palace and Nijō Castle.
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Castle
The Kyōto Imperial Palace, also known as Dairi…
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is a flatland castle in Kyoto, .
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Buddhist temple
is a Buddhist temple located in eastern Kyoto, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ukyō District and Sakyō-ku.
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Ukyō-ku is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in , .
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is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in , .
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is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in , .

Kyoto

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Latitude
35.0131° or 35° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
135.7567° or 135° 45′ 24″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP UKY
Open location code
8Q7Q2Q74+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1857910
Wiki­data ID
Q34600

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Kyoto” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Kyoto”
  • Adyghe: “Киото”
  • Afrikaans: “Kioto”
  • Albanian: “Kioto”
  • Albanian: “Kyoto”
  • Amharic: “ክዮቶ”
  • Arabic: “كيوتو”
  • Arabic: “كيوطو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كيوتو”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كيوطو”
  • Aragonese: “Kyoto”
  • Armenian: “Կիոտո”
  • Arpitan: “Kyoto”
  • Asturian: “Kyoto”
  • Atikamekw: “Kyoto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kioto”
  • Balinese: “Kyoto”
  • Bambara: “Kyoto”
  • Bashkir: “Киото”
  • Basque: “Kioto”
  • Basque: “Kyoto”
  • Batak Toba: “Kyoto”
  • Bavarian: “Kioto”
  • Belarusian: “Кіёта”
  • Belarusian: “Кіота”
  • Bengali: “কিয়োটো”
  • Bengali: “কিয়োতো”
  • Bosnian: “Kyoto”
  • Breton: “Kyoto”
  • Buginese: “Kyoto”
  • Bulgarian: “Киото”
  • Burmese: “ကျိုတိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kyoto”
  • Cebuano: “Kyoto”
  • Central Bikol: “Kyoto, Hapon”
  • Central Bikol: “Kyoto”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیۆتۆ”
  • Chamorro: “Kyoto”
  • Chavacano: “Kioto”
  • Chechen: “Киото”
  • Cherokee: “ᎩᏲᏙ”
  • Cheyenne: “Kyoto”
  • Chinese: “京都”
  • Chinese: “京都市”
  • Church Slavic: “Кїѡто”
  • Chuvash: “Киото”
  • Cornish: “Kyoto”
  • Corsican: “Kyoto”
  • Cree: “ᑭᔪᑐ”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kioto”
  • Croatian: “Kjoto”
  • Croatian: “Kyoto”
  • Czech: “Kjóto”
  • Dagbani: “Kyoto”
  • Danish: “Kyoto”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kyoto”
  • Dutch: “Heian”
  • Dutch: “Heiankyo”
  • Dutch: “Kioto”
  • Dutch: “Kyoto”
  • Dutch: “Miako”
  • Dzongkha: “ཀི་ཡ་ཊོ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Киото”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيوتو”
  • Emilian: “Kyōto”
  • Erzya: “Киото”
  • Esperanto: “Kioto”
  • Estonian: “Kyōto”
  • Ewe: “Kyoto”
  • Extremaduran: “Kioto”
  • Fanti: “Kyoto”
  • Faroese: “Kyoto”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kyoto”
  • Fijian: “Kyoto”
  • Finnish: “Kioto”
  • French: “Kyōto”
  • Galician: “Kyoto”
  • Galician: “Quioto”
  • Gan Chinese: “京都”
  • Ganda: “Kyoto”
  • Georgian: “კიოტო”
  • German: “Kyōto”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kyoto City”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kyoto”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Meacum”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌹𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌿”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌾𐍉𐍄𐍉”
  • Greek: “Κιṓτο”
  • Greek: “Κιότο”
  • Greek: “Κυṓτο”
  • Greek: “Κυότο”
  • Guarani: “Kióto”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Kyoto”
  • Gujarati: “ક્યોટો”
  • Gun: “Kyoto”
  • Haitian: “Kyoto”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kîn-tû-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Kyoto City”
  • Hausa: “Kyoto”
  • Hausa: “Meacum”
  • Hawaiian: “Kyoto”
  • Hebrew: “קיוטו”
  • Hindi: “क्योटो”
  • Hindi: “क्योतो”
  • Hungarian: “Kiotó”
  • Hungarian: “Kjóto”
  • Iban: “Kyoto”
  • Icelandic: “Kýótó”
  • Ido: “Kyoto”
  • Igbo: “Kyoto”
  • Iloko: “Kyoto”
  • Inari Sami: “Kioto”
  • Indonesian: “Kyoto”
  • Indonesian: “京都市”
  • Interlingua: “Kyoto”
  • Interlingue: “Kyoto”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑭᐆᑐ”
  • Inupiaq: “Kyoto”
  • Irish: “Kiótó”
  • Irish: “Kyōto”
  • Italian: “Città dei mille templi”
  • Italian: “Kyoto”
  • Japanese: “Kyōto-shi”
  • Japanese: “キョウト”
  • Japanese: “きょうとし”
  • Japanese: “上方”
  • Japanese: “京”
  • Japanese: “京の都”
  • Japanese: “京都”
  • Japanese: “京都市”
  • Japanese: “千年の都”
  • Japanese: “千年余りの都”
  • Japanese: “古都”
  • Japanese: “洛中”
  • Javanese: “Kyoto”
  • Jèrriais: “Kyoto”
  • Kabyle: “Kyoto”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Kyoto”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kyoto”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯೋಟೋ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯೋತೋ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kyoto”
  • Kashmiri: “کیٛوٹو”
  • Kazakh: “Киото”
  • Khmer: “ក្យូតុ”
  • Kikuyu: “Kyoto”
  • Kirghiz: “Киото”
  • Kölsch: “Kioto”
  • Kölsch: “Kyoto”
  • Komering: “Kyoto”
  • Korean: “교또 시”
  • Korean: “교토 시”
  • Korean: “쿄토 시”
  • Kotava: “Kyoto”
  • Kurdish: “Kyoto”
  • Ladin: “Kyoto”
  • Ladino: “Kioto”
  • Lak: “Киото”
  • Latgalian: “Kyoto”
  • Latin: “Kiotum”
  • Latin: “Kyotum”
  • Latin: “Meacum”
  • Latvian: “Kioto”
  • Latvian: “Kjoto”
  • Ligurian: “Kyoto”
  • Limburgan: “Kyoto”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kyoto”
  • Literary Chinese: “京都市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kiotas”
  • Lombard: “Kyoto”
  • Low German: “Kyoto”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kyoto”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kyōto”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kyōto”
  • Macedonian: “Кјото”
  • Maithili: “क्योटो”
  • Malagasy: “Kyoto”
  • Malay: “Kyoto”
  • Malayalam: “ക്യോട്ടോ”
  • Malayalam: “ക്യോത്തോ”
  • Maltese: “Kjoto”
  • Manx: “Kyoto”
  • Maori: “Kyoto”
  • Marathi: “क्योटो”
  • Marathi: “क्योतो”
  • Mazanderani: “کیوتو”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كيوتو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭng-dŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiaⁿ-to͘-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kyôto-chhī”
  • Minangkabau: “Kyoto”
  • Mingrelian: “კიოტო”
  • Mirandese: “Quioto (cidade)”
  • Mirandese: “Quioto”
  • Moksha: “Киота”
  • Moksha: “Киото”
  • Mongolian: “Киото”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيوطو”
  • Neapolitan: “Kyōto”
  • Nepali: “क्योटो”
  • Nepali: “क्योतो”
  • Newari: “क्योटो”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Kyoto”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kyōto”
  • Northern Sami: “Kyōto”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyoto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyoto”
  • Norwegian: “Kyoto”
  • Novial: “Kyoto”
  • Nyanja: “Kyoto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kyoto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Quiòto”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܩܝܘܛܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hēancyō”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kyōtō”
  • Oriya: “କ୍ଯୋଟୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Киото”
  • Pangasinan: “Kyoto”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਓਟੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਓਤੋ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Kyoto”
  • Persian: “کیوتو”
  • Picard: “Kyōto”
  • Piemontese: “Kyōto”
  • Polish: “Kioto”
  • Pontic: “Κιότο”
  • Portuguese: “Quioto”
  • Pushto: “کیوتو”
  • Quechua: “Kyōto”
  • Romanian: “Kioto”
  • Romanian: “Kyoto”
  • Rundi: “Kyoto”
  • Russia Buriat: “Киото”
  • Russian: “Кёто”
  • Russian: “Киото, Киото”
  • Russian: “Киото”
  • Russian: “Хэйян”
  • Samoan: “Kyoto”
  • Samogitian: “Kėjuots”
  • Samogitian: “Kijuots”
  • Sanskrit: “क्योटो”
  • Sanskrit: “क्योतोनगरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱭᱳᱴᱳ”
  • Sardinian: “Kyoto”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kioto”
  • Scots: “Kyoto”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kyoto”
  • Serbian: “Кјото”
  • Serbian: “Меако”
  • Serbian: “京都市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kjoto”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kyōto”
  • Sicilian: “Kyoto”
  • Sicilian: “Kyotu”
  • Silesian: “Kioto”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيوتو”
  • Sinhala: “ක්යෝතෝ”
  • Slovak: “Kjóto”
  • Slovenian: “Kjoto”
  • Somali: “Kyoto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیوتو”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kyoto”
  • Spanish: “Kioto”
  • Spanish: “Quioto”
  • Sundanese: “Kyoto”
  • Swahili: “Kyoto”
  • Swati: “IKyoto”
  • Swedish: “Heiankyo”
  • Swedish: “Kyoto”
  • Swedish: “Kyouto”
  • Swiss German: “Kyōto”
  • Tachelhit: “Kyuṭu”
  • Tagalog: “Kyoto”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kyoto”
  • Tahitian: “Kyoto”
  • Tajik: “Кёто”
  • Talysh: “Kioto”
  • Tamil: “கியோட்டோ”
  • Tamil: “கியோத்தோ”
  • Tatar: “Kioto”
  • Tatar: “Кьото”
  • Telugu: “క్యోటో”
  • Tetum: “Kioto”
  • Thai: “เกียวโต”
  • Thai: “เกียวโตะ”
  • Thai: “เคียวโตะ”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེཡོ་ཐྲོ།”
  • Tsonga: “Kyoto”
  • Tswana: “Kyoto”
  • Tumbuka: “Kyoto”
  • Turkish: “Kyoto”
  • Twi: “Kyoto”
  • Udmurt: “Киото”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіото”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kyoto”
  • Urdu: “کیوتو”
  • Urdu: “کیوٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Kioto”
  • Uzbek: “Kyoto”
  • Venetian: “Kyoto”
  • Veps: “Kioto”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyōto”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Kyōto”
  • Vlaams: “Kioto”
  • Volapük: “Kyoto”
  • Võro: “Kioto”
  • Walloon: “Kioto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kyoto”
  • Welsh: “Kyoto”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիոթօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Kioto”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیوٹو”
  • Wolof: “Kyoto”
  • Wu Chinese: “京都市”
  • Yakut: “Киото”
  • Yiddish: “קיאטא”
  • Yoruba: “Kyoto”
  • Yue Chinese: “京都”
  • Yue Chinese: “京都市”
  • Zeeuws: “Kioto (stad)”
  • Zeeuws: “Kyoto”
  • Zulu: “IKyoto”
  • “Kyouto-shi”
  • “ma tomo Kijoto”
  • “Meaco”

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