Kyoto is a city in the central part of the island of Honshu (Japan) and it is located in a valley, part of the Yamashiro Basin, in the eastern part of the mountainous region known as the Tamba highlands.
This is a map of Kyoto (Japan) in 1940. Source: American edition of Meeting with Japan by Fosco Maraini. Author: Viking Press, for the American edition.

