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| − | '''Kyoto''' is a city in the island of [[Honshu]], in [[Japan]]; an ancient imperial capital. Kyoto has 1. | + | '''Kyoto''' is a city in the island of [[Honshu]], in [[Japan]]; an ancient imperial capital. Kyoto has 1.6 million inhabitants, and important Japanese cultural assets (Architecture, gardens, palaces and Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines). Kyoto is part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. |
::''Capital of Japan from 794 until the 1868 "Meiji Restoration", this city is cupped in a ring of mountains and cut through by rivers. It is home of several UNESCO World Heritage sites.'' [http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/kyoto/index.html] | ::''Capital of Japan from 794 until the 1868 "Meiji Restoration", this city is cupped in a ring of mountains and cut through by rivers. It is home of several UNESCO World Heritage sites.'' [http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/kyoto/index.html] | ||
Revision as of 13:56, March 21, 2008
Kyoto is a city in the island of Honshu, in Japan; an ancient imperial capital. Kyoto has 1.6 million inhabitants, and important Japanese cultural assets (Architecture, gardens, palaces and Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines). Kyoto is part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.
- Capital of Japan from 794 until the 1868 "Meiji Restoration", this city is cupped in a ring of mountains and cut through by rivers. It is home of several UNESCO World Heritage sites. [1]
Kyoto is most well known in the western world for being the city in which the Kyoto Protocol was drafted.