Kyoto (京都市 Kyōto-shi) (Japanese pronunciation: is a city located in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan.
It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, it
is now the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture located in the Kansai region, as well as a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe
metropolitan area.
In Japanese, the city has been called Kyō (京), Miyako (都), or Kyō no Miyako (京の都). In the 11th century, the city
was renamed Kyoto ("capital city"), after the Chinese word for capital city, jingdu (京都). After Edo was renamed Tokyo
(meaning "Eastern Capital") in 1868, Kyoto was known for a short time as Saikyō (西京, meaning "Western Capital").
An obsolete spelling for the city's name is Kioto; it was formerly known to the West as Meaco (/miːækoʊ/; Japanese: 都;
miyako, meaning "the seat of Imperial palace" or "capital".) Another term commonly used to refer to the city in the
pre-modern period was Keishi (京師), meaning "metropolis" or "capital".
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