Kyoto

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 (56.
8%) 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 (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.

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