Kyōto
English
Proper noun
Kyōto
- Alternative spelling of Kyoto, a prefecture of Japan.
- Alternative spelling of Kyoto, the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital.
- 2007, Alexis C. Kelly with Deborah Kaufman, Fodor's Tōkyō, Fodor's Travel (Random House), →ISBN:
- The shogunate was overthrown in 1867 by supporters of Emperor Meiji. The following year, the emperor moved his court from Kyōto to Edo and renamed it Tōkyō: the Eastern Capital.
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