1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Kyoto, Japan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kyoto—1,463,723, Asia/Tokyo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in the Kyōto Prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kyoto is GeoNames ID 1857910. Its recorded administrative path is Kyoto Shi → Kyoto → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Kyoto occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2022-10-24; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kyoto ranks 331 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 9; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 190. Its 1,463,723 population value is 1.90 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 1.45 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kyoto falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Kyoto's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kyoto's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Higashiosaka at 42.369 km with 493,940 recorded people; Osaka at 43.085 km with 2,753,862 recorded people; Nishinomiya at 51.331 km with 485,587 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 8.962 km. Compared with Higashiosaka, Kyoto's recorded population is 2.96 times as large. Against Kyoto, Higashiosaka follows Higashiosaka Shi → Osaka → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kyoto's. Against Kyoto, Osaka follows Osaka-shi → Osaka → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kyoto's. Against Kyoto, Nishinomiya follows Nishinomiya Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Kyoto's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 376 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kyoto's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1857910, the coordinate pair 35.0211 / 135.7539, country rank 9 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1862752 at 42.369 km bind Kyoto to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kyoto's reference point is 35.0211° north and 135.7539° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Kyoto's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kyoto's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kyoto's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kyoto, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kyoto's closest other entries in this atlas are Higashiosaka (42.369 km), Osaka (43.085 km), Nishinomiya (51.331 km).
04Verify before you book
Before visiting Kyoto, confirm changing decisions with current first-party sources:
Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2022-10-24; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.