Yes, 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

Yes, 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.