Kyoto+Imperial+Palace

The Kyoto Imperial Palace is a royal palace of Japan, though the Emperor is not living there. An emperor has visited and lived in the palace since 1869 and demanded the palace be preserved since 1877. Today the palace is accessible to the public and holds public tours of the palace every day. The palace is the most recent of imperial palaces constructed at or near the site of an old capitol, Heian-kyo, after the desertion of the Heian palace. The palace lost most business around the time of the Meiji Restoration. This was when the capitol was moved to Tokyo.