WELCOME TO KYOTO

Kyoto has a reputation worldwide as the most beautiful city in Japan. It boasts of 2,000 temples, shrines, and other historical assets including 17 World Heritage sites. Ever since it was built by the Emperor in 794, this old capital has flourished over the millennium, and left us a tremendous legacy of Japanese traditions and cultures. Today, Kyoto is also highly regarded as a leading intellectual center in the country, fostering many universities and research institutes, and is the original home of corporations and business ventures in science, technology and culture, such as Nintendo, Shimadzu, Horiba, YMC, KYOCERA, Gekkeikan, TaKaRa, Wacoal, OMRON, Murata, and many other international companies. Kyoto, old but new, attracts many people around the world with its beauty, elegance and sophistication.

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ACCESS TO KYOTO

The Kansai International Airport (KIX), located slightly over an hour from Kyoto, is the most-used international airport in Japan after Tokyo. Forty-nine airlines from over seventy different cities throughout the world serve KIX with almost seven hundred departures per week. KIX is approximately eleven hours from points within Europe - almost the same amount of time as it takes to reach the West Coast of the USA. With the opening of an additional runway in August 2007, KIX satisfies the global standard for international airports for the first time in Japan with multiple long runways and 24-hour operation.

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Kansai International Airport (KIX) to Kyoto JR Haruka Express Train 75 minutes ¥ 2,980
Limousine Bus 95 minutes ¥ 2,500
Tokyo to Kyoto JR Shinkansen Bullet Train 135 minutes ¥ 12,710
Nagoya to Kyoto JR Shinkansen Bullet Train 35 minutes ¥ 4,930
Fukuoka to Kyoto JR Shinkansen Bullet Train 160 minutes ¥ 14,700

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