Kyoto, when the capital of Japan, is a city on the island of Honshu. It's renowned for its various established Buddhist sanctuaries, just as patio nurseries, supreme castles, Shinto hallowed places and conventional wooden houses. It's likewise referred to for formal conventions, for example, kaiseki eating, comprising of different courses of exact dishes, and geisha, female performers regularly found in the Gion locale. 

Kyoto is situated in a valley, some portion of the Yamashiro (or Kyoto) Basin, in the eastern piece of the precipitous area known as the Tamba good countries. The Yamashiro Basin is encompassed on three sides by mountains known as Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama, with a tallness simply over 1,000 meters (3,281 ft) above ocean level. This inside situating results in sweltering summers and cold winters. There are three waterways in the bowl, the Ujigawa toward the south, the Katsuragawa toward the west, and the Kamogawa toward the east. Kyoto City takes up 17.9% of the land in the prefecture with a zone of 827.9 square kilometers (319.7 sq mi).