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>quiet backwater Wow. Kyoto was the capital of Japan for close to a millennium.
by surreality 8y ago
>quiet backwater
Wow.
Kyoto was the capital of Japan for close to a millennium.
- jpatokal 8y agoYes, but it stopped being the seat of power in 1603 and even the Emperor moved to Tokyo in 1868. The point, though, is not the politics, but that modern Kyoto bears very little resemblance to pre-1900 Kyoto.