Hokkaido Toyako Summit
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Located roughly in the center of the Japanese Archipelago, Kyoto Prefecture has a northern coastline that faces the Sea of Japan and land borders with the prefectures of Fukui to the north, Shiga and Mie to the east, Nara and Osaka to the south, and Hyogo to the west. The climate is divided roughly between the Sea of Japan zone (characterized by heavy winter snowfall) and the inland zone by the Tamba Highlands, which occupy the central region of the prefecture.
Kyoto City, where the Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting is being held, is in the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture. Despite its status as a large city of 1,470,000 inhabitants, Kyoto is famous for its scenic beauty as a town of abundant fresh water and greenery surrounded on three sides by mountains and with clear water streams such as the Kamo and Katsura Rivers flowing through its center.