Kyoto
Place
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese: 京都, Kyōto [k̟ʲjó̞ò̞.tò̞] ), officially Kyoto City (京都市, Kyōto-shi; [k̟ʲjò̞ó̞.tó̞.ɕì, k̟ʲjó̞ó̞-] , locally [k̟ʲjó̞ó̞.tó̞.ɕì]), 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 home to approximately 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.