All About Japan

As of January 2012 Japan had a population of 127.6 million inhabitants. The city of Kyoto is 827.9km squared. It has a population of 1.474 million people. Kyoto is 4 hours behind New Zealand time. The city of Kyoto is located in the center of the island of Honshu. Kyoto was formerly the capital of Japan for over one thousand years. In Japanese the city has been called Kyō, Mikayo or Kyō no Mikayo. Later in the 11th century the city was named Kyoto (Capital City).