Kyoto
Home Kyoto For a thousand years Kyoto was the capital of Japan, and it remains the country’s cultural soul. Where
Kansai
The region of Kansai. Japan’s cultural heartland. Kyoto holds the greatest concentration of temples, gardens and geisha districts; Nara its ancient Great Buddha and tame deer; Osaka the country’s most exuberant food scene; and Himeji its finest original castle.