Video and photos in HD I have made during my Asia trip to Kyoto (京都) in Japan in 2010/2011. The video includes the following highlights: Shinkansen train to Kyoto, Golden Pavilion Temple (Kinkaku-ji), Zen Buddhist temple, Rokuon-ji, Deer Garden Temple, Ryōan-ji temple, Ryoanji Temple, rock zen garden, Karesansui Garden, Nijo Castle, Imperial Palace, visit inside the Imperial Palace of Kyoto, Fushimi Inari-taisha, Torii orange gates, shrine, Heian Jingu Shrine, Yasaka Shrine, Hokanji Pagoda, Yasaka Pagoda, Kiyomizu Temple Complex, Kiyomizu-dera, Otowa Waterfall, Geisha district, Gion, Arashiyama bamboo grove by night, japanese girls.
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Photocamera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T99
Editing program: Magix Movie Edit

Soundtracks:
1. Merry Christmans Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto
2. Japanese traditional music


KYOTO (source Wikipedia):

Kyoto (京都市, Kyōto-shi) is a city located in the central part of the island of Honshu, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years, it is now the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture located in the Kansai region, as well as a major part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area.

Kyoto is located in a valley, part of the Yamashiro (or Kyoto) Basin, in the eastern part of the mountainous region known as the Tamba highlands. The Yamashiro Basin is surrounded on three sides by mountains known as Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama, with a height just above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) above sea level. This interior positioning results in hot summers and cold winters. There are three rivers in the basin, the Ujigawa to the south, the Katsuragawa to the west, and the Kamogawa to the east. Kyoto City takes up 17.9% of the land in the prefecture with an area of 827.9 square kilometres (319.7 sq mi).

The original city was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an. The Imperial Palace faced south, resulting in Ukyō (the right sector of the capital) being on the west while Sakyō (the left sector) is on the east. The streets in the modern-day wards of Nakagyō, Shimogyō, and Kamigyō-ku still follow a grid pattern.

Today, the main business district is located to the south of the old Imperial Palace, with the less-populated northern area retaining a far greener feel. Surrounding areas do not follow the same grid pattern as the center of the city, though streets throughout Kyoto share the distinction of having names.

Kyoto sits atop a large natural water table that provides the city with ample freshwater wells. Due to large-scale urbanization, the amount of rain draining into the table is dwindling and wells across the area are drying at an increasing rate.


KYOTO IMPERIAL PALACE (source Wikipedia):

The Kyoto Imperial Palace (Kyōto-gosho) is the former ruling palace of the Emperor of Japan. The Emperors have since resided at the Tokyo Imperial Palace after the Meiji Restoration in 1869, and the preservation of the Kyoto Imperial Palace was ordered in 1877. Today, the grounds are open to the public, and the Imperial Household Agency hosts public tours of the buildings several times a day.

The Kyoto Imperial Palace is the latest of the imperial palaces built at or near its site in the north-eastern part of the old capital of Heian-kyō after the abandonment of the larger original Heian Palace (Dai-dairi) that was located to the west of the current palace during the Heian Period. The Palace lost much of its function at the time of the Meiji Restoration, when the capital functions were moved to Tokyo in 1869. However, the Taishō and Shōwa Emperors still had their enthronement ceremonies at the palace.

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