105 Kyoto Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit Kyoto each year?

Kyoto City had more visits in 2025 than in any year before, about 12% more than in 2024. The city counts anyone who lives outside it and comes in for any reason except work or school commuting, so day trips and business visits are included.

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Tourist visits to Kyoto City, 2015 to 2025. The 2020 and 2021 values are the city's own estimates and are not on the national common standard.

Period	Value
2015	56.84m
2016	55.22m
2017	53.62m
2018	52.75m
2019	53.52m
2020	21.59m
2021	21.02m
2022	43.61m
2023	50.28m
2024	56.06m
2025	62.79m

• Japanese visitors made 50.11 million of the 2025 visits and foreign visitors an estimated 12.68 million. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Visits rose from 56.06 million in 2024 and passed the previous peak of 56.84 million, set in 2015. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Foreign visits have grown from an estimated 4.82 million in 2015 to 8.86 million in 2019 and 10.88 million in 2024. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• 669,834 school-trip students stayed overnight in Kyoto City in 2025, down 10.6% from 749,632 in 2024. Two thirds were junior-high pupils. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)

The foreign visitor figure is a reference estimate, made by applying the share of foreign visitors to Japan who visit Kyoto Prefecture to the national arrivals count. It is not a head count. School-trip numbers are estimated from accommodation tax data and do not compare with years before 2019.

Where do Kyoto's foreign visitors come from?

China and the United States are Kyoto's two largest foreign markets by guest nights. Kyoto draws a far more Western mix than Japan as a whole, with Europe and North America taking much larger shares.

1. 1 China 3.54m
2. 2 United States 2.74m
3. 3 Taiwan 1.26m
4. 4 Australia 0.91m
5. 5 South Korea 0.84m
6. 6 Italy 626k
7. 7 UK 606k
8. 8 Spain 588k
9. 9 France 558k
10. 10 Germany 484k

• China supplied 3.54 million foreign guest nights in Kyoto City in 2025, 20.4% of the total, ahead of the United States with 2.74 million (15.8%). (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Guest nights from Taiwan fell to 79.0% of their 2024 level and from South Korea to 90.9%, while US nights rose 12.8%. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Italy (626,000 guest nights) and the UK (606,000) were the largest European markets, and Spain grew 25.1% to 588,000. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Europe took 17.7% of Kyoto City's foreign guest nights, against 8.7% across Japan. Asia took 42.0%, against 58.9% nationally, and North America 18.6%, against 13.2%. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• In the major-hotel panel, China took 21.5% of foreign guest nights and the US 19.4%. Nights from the Middle East rose 48.8%. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)
• Across Kyoto Prefecture, larger lodgings recorded 3.13 million Chinese and 2.36 million US guest nights in 2025, the same top two. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Jul 2026)

Three bases are used here: the city survey covers all lodging in Kyoto City, the DMO KYOTO panel covers about 105 to 115 major hotels, and the national figures cover larger lodgings across the whole prefecture. They are not directly comparable.

How much do visitors spend in Kyoto?

Visitor spending in Kyoto City set a record in 2025, with shopping the largest single category. Foreign visitors spend far more per trip than Japanese visitors, mostly because they stay longer.

• Shopping 640.3bn
• Accommodation 529.1bn
• Food and drink 485.6bn
• Local transport 179.3bn
• Admission fees 146.8bn
• Other and experiences 66.2bn

• Japanese visitors spent 1.1963 trillion yen and foreign visitors 851.0 billion yen in 2025. Foreign visitors made about a fifth of visits but about 42% of spending. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• On the revised series, spending was 1.8839 trillion yen in 2024 and 1.2348 trillion yen in 2019. The 2025 survey revised earlier years: 2024 was first published as 1.9075 trillion yen. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Admission and temple entry fees grew fastest, up 22.9% on 2024. Day-trip spending rose 29.4% while overnight spending was flat. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Foreign overnight visitors spent 92,623 yen per trip, against 68,800 yen for Japanese overnight visitors. Day-trippers spent 22,099 yen and 14,710 yen. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Spend per visitor fell in 2025, by 4.5% for foreign visitors (from 70,331 yen) and 3.6% for Japanese visitors (from 24,764 yen); total spending rose because there were more visitors. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)

Spending is estimated from visitor questionnaires and visitor numbers, in current yen. The 2025 survey changed its method for overnight visitors and spending and revised 2019 to 2024, so older reports quote different figures for those years.

What is tourism worth to Kyoto?

Tourism is one of the largest parts of Kyoto's economy. The city publishes model estimates of output, value added and jobs, and the prefecture publishes its own spending total, so each is given separately.

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Economic output generated by tourism in Kyoto City, including knock-on effects, in yen.

Period	Value
2019	1.3548tn
2024	2.0718tn
2025	2.2193tn

• Tourism in Kyoto City generated a record 2.2193 trillion yen of economic output in 2025, counting knock-on effects, up from 2.0718 trillion yen in 2024. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• The gross value added from that activity was 1.2478 trillion yen, the city's closest measure to tourism's share of local GDP. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Visitor spending equalled the annual consumer spending of about 1.08 million residents, 75.2% of the city's population. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Across Kyoto Prefecture, tourism spending reached a record 2.2559 trillion yen in 2025, 170% of the 2019 level. Outside Kyoto City it was 208.6 billion yen, more than double 2019. (Kyoto Prefecture (tourist visitor survey), Aug 2026)
• 97% of Kyoto Prefecture's 8.31 million foreign overnight guests in 2025 stayed in Kyoto City. Outside the city the number rose 52% to 215,617. (Kyoto Prefecture (tourist visitor survey), Aug 2026)

The output, value added and jobs figures come from an input-output model and include indirect effects; they are not GDP or a head count of tourism workers. The prefecture spending figure includes Kyoto City and uses the prefecture's own method, so it should not be added to the city figures.

How many visitors stay overnight in Kyoto, and for how long?

More people stayed overnight in Kyoto City in 2025 than ever before, and foreign guests now make up about half of them. Foreign visitors stay much longer than Japanese visitors, who mostly come for the day or one night.

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Foreign overnight guests in Kyoto City, 2019 to 2025, on the city's revised series.

Period	Value
2019	4.59m
2020	0.60m
2021	0.04m
2022	0.50m
2023	4.85m
2024	7.09m
2025	8.09m

• A record 16.59 million people stayed overnight in Kyoto City in 2025: 8.49 million Japanese and 8.09 million foreign guests. Japanese overnight guests fell from 9.21 million in 2024 on the revised series. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• The city survey counts 29.83 million guest nights in 2025, of which 17.31 million, or 58.0%, were foreign. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• 68.3% of foreign visitors stayed three nights or more in the city, against 16.4% of Japanese visitors. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• The national statistics give Kyoto City 31,059,200 guest nights in 2025, of which 18,160,230 (58.5%) were foreign. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Oct 2026)
• Kyoto Prefecture had 33.16 million guest nights in 2025, 3.1% fewer than in 2024. Japanese guest nights fell 13.9% to 14.87 million, 20.6% below 2019. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Jul 2026)
• 19.20 million individual guests stayed overnight in Kyoto Prefecture in 2025, 8.80 million of them from abroad. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Jul 2026)
• Guests at major hotels stayed 2.04 nights on average in 2025, the longest since the panel began. Europeans averaged 3.00 nights. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)

Three guest-night counts exist for 2025: the city survey, built on accommodation tax data, covers all lodging in the city; the national statistics cover the city on their own sample; the major-hotel panel covers only about 105 to 115 hotels. Each foreign share is on its own basis. The city survey revised 2019 to 2024: 2024 foreign overnight guests were first published as 8.21 million. Foreign guests include foreign residents of Japan.

How full are Kyoto's hotels, and what do they cost?

Kyoto's major hotels were busier in 2025 than in 2024 and charged record rates, but they were still less full than before the pandemic, partly because the city now has far more rooms. Ryokan and smaller lodgings run well below the big hotels.

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Room occupancy at major hotels in Kyoto City, 2014 to 2025. Each year is the value restated by the following year's panel.

Period	Value
2014	85.6%
2015	85.8%
2016	88.2%
2017	88.0%
2018	85.2%
2019	81.3%
2020	34.6%
2021	30.2%
2022	52.0%
2023	73.4%
2024	77.8%
2025	80.6%

• Across all lodging in the city, including ryokan and guesthouses, occupancy was an estimated 70.7% in 2025, against 61.8% for Japan on the preliminary national figure. (DMO KYOTO (annual report), Mar 2026)
• Kyoto Prefecture's lodgings were 66.8% full in 2025, against 61.6% nationally. City hotels ran at 77.5%, simple lodgings at 52.0% and ryokan at 41.7%. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Jul 2026)
• Revenue per available room at major hotels hit a record 17,156 yen, up 9.6%. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)
• Foreign guests took a record 66.4% of major-hotel guest nights in 2025, up from 60.8%. Total nights rose 4.9% to 10,549,946, with foreign nights up 14.6% and Japanese nights down 10.0%. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)
• Major ryokan were 59.3% full, down from 61.6%, as fewer school groups stayed, though their average rate rose 12.0%. (DMO KYOTO (annual report), Mar 2026)
• Hotels were 83.3% full on nights before holidays and 76.4% on other nights, a gap of 6.9 points, down from 10.1 points in 2023. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)
• Luxury hotels averaged 103,318 yen a room night, flat on 2024. Hotels in the lowest price band averaged 11,221 yen, up 7.4%. (DMO KYOTO (major hotels), Mar 2026)

Major-hotel figures come from a panel of 105 to 115 hotels and the ryokan figures from 21 to 23 inns. The 2024 occupancy of 77.8% is the value restated in the 2025 report; the 2024 report first gave 78.5%. The 66.8% figure covers the whole prefecture, not the city.

How many hotels and rooms does Kyoto have?

Kyoto City has about twice as many licensed lodging rooms as it did ten years ago. Most of the growth came from hotels and small guesthouses; registered home-sharing is a small part of the market.

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Licensed lodging rooms in Kyoto City at the end of each fiscal year (31 March).

Period	Value
Mar 2015	29,189
Mar 2020	53,471
Mar 2025	60,060

• At the end of March 2025 the city had 3,586 licensed lodgings with 60,060 rooms: 630 hotels and ryokan with 42,257 rooms, and 2,956 simple lodgings, such as small guesthouses, with 17,803 rooms. 225 opened and 91 closed that year. (DMO KYOTO (annual report), Mar 2026)
• Room numbers have about doubled from 29,189 in March 2015. Simple lodgings rose from 460 to a peak of 3,337 in March 2020. (DMO KYOTO (annual report), Mar 2026)
• By September 2026 the city had an estimated 61,385 rooms, 1.7% more than a year earlier, and 5.8% more lodging facilities. (DMO KYOTO (monthly report), Oct 2026)
• 17 more major lodgings with 836 rooms are due to open by 2027. (DMO KYOTO (annual report), Mar 2026)
• 1,360 homes were registered for minpaku home-sharing in Kyoto City in September 2026, against 2,043 in Osaka City. 518 of the 1,878 notified since 2018 have closed. (JTA (minpaku registrations), Sep 2026)

Licensed lodging counts come from Kyoto City's health bureau, compiled by DMO KYOTO, and cover hotels, ryokan and simple lodgings licensed under the Inns and Hotels Act. They exclude minpaku homes. The September 2026 room count is a DMO KYOTO estimate between the city's year-end counts. The opening pipeline is a forecast.

What are Kyoto's most visited sights?

Kiyomizu-dera is the sight foreign visitors most often go to, followed by Nijo Castle, Gion and Fushimi Inari. Most temples and shrines do not publish gate counts, so the city survey's shares of respondents are the best official guide.

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Visitors to Nijo Castle by fiscal year (April to March), FY2019 to FY2025.

Period	Value
FY2019	2.06m
FY2020	0.60m
FY2021	0.54m
FY2022	1.27m
FY2023	1.86m
FY2024	2.05m
FY2025	2.07m

• Kiyomizu-dera was named by 69.7% of foreign visitors surveyed, ahead of Nijo Castle (60.4%), the Gion area (56.2%) and Fushimi Inari Taisha (53.0%). (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Kinkaku-ji was visited by 45.4% of foreign respondents, the Nishiki Market area by 42.6% and Arashiyama and Sagano by 40.2%. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• 96.4% of foreign visitors went to temples, shrines or historic sites, against 76.7% of Japanese visitors. Japanese visitors most often went to the Kyoto Station area (42.9%). (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Nijo Castle passed its pre-pandemic level of 2,058,152 visitors, set in the year to March 2020. (Kyoto City (Nijo Castle), May 2026)
• The castle's restored Honmaru Palace, open again since September 2024, drew 117,559 visitors in the year to March 2026. (Kyoto City (Nijo Castle), May 2026)
• Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art had a record 2,072,114 visitors in the year to March 2025, 1,380,126 of them at exhibitions. (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Oct 2025)
• The museum's 2024 Takashi Murakami exhibition drew 459,559 visitors over 187 days. (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Oct 2025)

Survey shares are the share of respondents who visited each place (1,717 foreign respondents, interviewed at 12 sites in four months), not visitor counts. Japanese respondents were asked about areas, not named sights, so the two lists are not like-for-like. Nijo Castle and the museum count by fiscal year.

How crowded is Kyoto, and how do visitors rate it?

Most visitors leave satisfied, but crowding is the most common complaint and it grew in 2025. Japanese visitors are less happy than foreign visitors, and their satisfaction fell in 2025.

• 90.9% of Japanese visitors were satisfied with their trip in 2025, down from 94.6% in 2024. 48.2% of foreign visitors said they were very satisfied. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• 47.2% of Japanese visitors and 21.0% of foreign visitors said something disappointed them. The foreign share has risen from 16.3% in 2023. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Among visitors who named a disappointment, 38.5% of Japanese and 28.6% of foreign visitors cited crowds, up from 32.9% and 23.0% in 2024. Other visitors' manners came next for Japanese visitors, at 11.1%. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• 50.9% of Japanese and 54.0% of foreign visitors took steps to avoid crowds, a question first asked in 2025. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Of foreign visitors who avoided crowds, 68.6% went at quiet times early or late in the day, 47.6% avoided the cherry blossom and autumn leaf seasons and 36.3% went to less famous spots. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)

Complaint shares are shares of visitors who reported a disappointment, not of all visitors. All figures are self-reported answers to the city's visitor questionnaire.

How much is Kyoto's accommodation tax?

Kyoto City raised its accommodation tax sharply in March 2026, adding higher bands for expensive rooms. The city expects the take to more than double, and it already collected more than any other Japanese municipality before the rise.

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Kyoto City accommodation tax revenue by fiscal year, in yen. FY2018 covers October 2018 to March 2019 only; FY2020 to FY2022 were hit by the pandemic.

Period	Value
FY2018	1.54bn
FY2019	4.20bn
FY2020	1.29bn
FY2021	1.63bn
FY2022	3.05bn
FY2023	5.20bn

• From 1 March 2026 the tax is 200 yen per person per night for rooms under 6,000 yen, 400 yen from 6,000 to 19,999 yen, 1,000 yen from 20,000 to 49,999 yen and 4,000 yen from 50,000 to 99,999 yen. (Kyoto City (accommodation tax), Mar 2026)
• From October 2018 to February 2026 there were three rates: 200 yen for rooms under 20,000 yen, 500 yen from 20,000 to 49,999 yen and 1,000 yen at 50,000 yen and above. (Kyoto City (accommodation tax), Mar 2026)
• The tax raised 4.2 billion yen in FY2019, its first full year, and 5.2 billion yen in FY2023, which the city says was the highest of any Japanese municipality. (Kyoto City (accommodation tax), Jan 2025)
• Revenue was 6.2 billion yen in FY2024. The city budgeted 5.9 billion yen for FY2025 and 13.2 billion yen for FY2026, the first full year at the new rates. (Kyoto City (accommodation tax), Mar 2026)
• In the FY2026 budget the tax covers about 80% of 16.2 billion yen of eligible spending, up from about 50% a year earlier, including 3.5 billion yen for tourism problems such as congestion. (Kyoto City (accommodation tax), Mar 2026)

Fiscal years run April to March. FY2024 is a settled figure; FY2025 and FY2026 are budgets, not outturns. The tax is charged per person per night on the room price excluding meals and consumption tax, and school-trip pupils are exempt.

How do visitors get to and around Kyoto?

Almost all Japanese visitors arrive by train or bus, and foreign visitors mostly get around by rail, subway and on foot. The city subway is busier than ever, while city buses have not yet returned to their pre-pandemic level.

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Average daily passengers on Kyoto City Subway and city buses, in thousands, before the pandemic and in the year to March 2026.

Period	Value
Subway FY2019	400k
Subway FY2025	416k
Bus FY2019	357k
Bus FY2025	346k

• 81.5% of Japanese visitors arrived by rail and 8.5% by bus in 2025; 9.3% came by car, against 41.7% in 1994. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Foreign visitors mostly got around by rail (30.0%), on foot (24.2%) or by subway (24.1%); 14.7% relied mainly on city buses and 2.2% on taxis. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Subway fare revenue was a record 27.2 billion yen in the year to March 2026. Riders without a season ticket, which include most visitors, rose 3.8% to 222,000 a day. (Kyoto City Transportation Bureau, Aug 2026)
• City buses carried 346,000 passengers a day, up 2.0%. Bus and subway together passed their pre-pandemic total for the first time. (Kyoto City Transportation Bureau, Aug 2026)
• The city plans a resident-priority fare on city buses, so that visitors pay more than residents, in the year to March 2028. (Kyoto City Transportation Bureau, Aug 2026)
• JR Kyoto Station had 174,253 boarding passengers a day on JR West services in the year to March 2026, second only to Osaka on that network. (JR West, 2026)

Arrival shares are for Japanese visitors; the foreign figures are the single main way of getting around. Bus and subway counts include residents. JR Kyoto Station counts boardings on JR West lines only, not the Tokaido Shinkansen, subway or Kintetsu.

How is Kyoto tourism doing in 2026?

Kyoto has had fewer foreign guests in 2026 than in 2025, mostly because Chinese travel fell sharply after China advised against trips to Japan in late 2025. Japanese guests have filled part of the gap, and hotel rates are still rising.

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Room occupancy at major hotels in Kyoto City by month, January to September 2026.

Period	Value
Jan	65.7%
Feb	73.7%
Mar	81.6%
Apr	85.1%
May	87.0%
Jun	78.9%
Jul	75.2%
Aug	74.9%
Sep	79.7%

• Kyoto Prefecture had 19.33 million guest nights in January to August 2026, 10.3% fewer than a year earlier. Foreign guest nights fell 16.9% to 9.99 million. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Oct 2026)
• In August 2026 foreign guest nights in the prefecture fell 21.9% to 1.16 million, while Japanese guest nights rose 1.0%. (JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics), Oct 2026)
• Chinese guest nights at major hotels fell 51.1% in September 2026, after a 60.4% fall in August. The US was the largest market that month, at 17.0% of foreign nights. (DMO KYOTO (monthly report), Oct 2026)
• Major-hotel occupancy was 79.7% in September 2026, 3.8 points lower than a year earlier, while the average rate rose 5.4% to 19,333 yen. (DMO KYOTO (monthly report), Oct 2026)
• On bookings at the start of September, hotels expected 91.7% occupancy in October 2026 and 90.9% in November. (DMO KYOTO (monthly report), Oct 2026)

The 2026 national figures are provisional and cover the whole prefecture. The Japan Tourism Agency changed its sampling method in January 2026, so changes on 2025 may partly reflect that. Monthly hotel figures come from a panel of 113 to 118 hotels and are compared with the restated prior-year panel.

When is the best time to visit Kyoto?

Late March to early April and the autumn are the classic seasons, for cherry blossom and autumn leaves, and they are also the busiest and dearest. Summers are hot and humid, and rooms are cheapest from June to August and in January and February.

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Room occupancy at major hotels in Kyoto City by month, 2025. October and April are the busiest months.

Period	Value
Jan	68.7%
Feb	71.7%
Mar	79.4%
Apr	89.5%
May	87.2%
Jun	80.0%
Jul	75.4%
Aug	76.8%
Sep	83.9%
Oct	90.0%
Nov	86.9%
Dec	77.9%

• August is the hottest month, with a mean of 28.5°C and an average daily high of 33.7°C. January is coldest, with a mean of 4.8°C. (JMA (climate), 1991-2020)
• Kyoto gets 1,522.9 mm of rain a year. July is wettest, at 223.6 mm, and January driest, at 53.3 mm. (JMA (climate), 1991-2020)
• April (mean 14.4°C, 117.0 mm of rain) and November (12.5°C, 73.9 mm) are mild and fairly dry. (JMA (climate), 1991-2020)
• On the 1991-2020 normals, 27.2 nights a year stay at 25°C or above and 75.8 days reach 30°C. (JMA (climate), 1991-2020)
• Summer 2025 peaked at 39.6°C on 30 July, with 99 days at 30°C or more and 68 nights at 25°C or more. (JMA (climate), 2025)
• In 2026 the cherry blossom opened on 23 March and reached full bloom on 30 March, 3 and 5 days earlier than the normal dates of 26 March and 4 April. (JMA (seasonal observations), 2026)
• The earliest cherry blossom opening on record in Kyoto was 16 March 2021 and the latest 9 April 1984. (JMA (seasonal observations), Mar 2026)
• The observatory's maple leaves turned red on 10 December 2025, 5 days later than the 5 December normal. In 2024 they turned on 20 December, the latest on record. (JMA (seasonal observations), 2025)
• November was the busiest month for visits in 2025, with 5.87 million, and February the quietest, with 4.50 million. (Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025), Jun 2026)
• Major hotels averaged 31,296 yen a night in April 2026, during the blossom, against 16,854 yen in June and 17,645 yen in January. (DMO KYOTO (monthly report), May 2026)

Climate figures are 1991-2020 averages for the Kyoto weather station unless a year is given. Blossom and maple dates come from a single sample tree at the Kyoto observatory, so popular spots can differ by several days; peak autumn colour at temples usually comes before the observatory's maple date. Room rates exclude consumption and accommodation tax.

How safe is Kyoto for visitors?

Recorded crime in Kyoto Prefecture is far lower than ten years ago, though it has risen a little since 2021. Most recorded offences are thefts, and serious violent crime is rare.

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Penal-code offences recorded by police across Kyoto Prefecture, 2016 to 2025.

Period	Value
2016	20,479
2017	18,603
2018	16,821
2019	15,136
2020	11,851
2021	10,483
2022	10,578
2023	11,885
2024	12,059
2025	12,398

• Police recorded 12,398 penal-code offences across Kyoto Prefecture in 2025, up from a low of 10,483 in 2021 but well below 20,479 in 2016. (Kyoto Prefectural Police, 2026)
• Thefts made up 8,355 of those offences, including 3,304 thefts of bicycles and other vehicles. 7 homicides were recorded, against 14 in 2016. (Kyoto Prefectural Police, 2026)
• Higashiyama ward, home to Gion and Kiyomizu-dera, recorded 330 offences in 2025, down from 377 in 2024. (Kyoto Prefectural Police, 2026)

The series covers the whole prefecture, including Kyoto City. Recorded crime counts offences known to police, not every incident, and has no breakdown for visitors. Ward figures include offences against residents.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from the bodies that produce them: Kyoto City for its annual Kyoto Tourism Survey, accommodation tax, transport and attractions; Kyoto Prefecture and the Kyoto Prefectural Police for prefecture figures; the Japan Tourism Agency for national hotel statistics; DMO KYOTO for its hotel panel; and the Japan Meteorological Agency for weather. Each figure links to the document that carries it, with the date. City and prefecture figures are labelled and never charted together, and each measure of guest nights and foreign share is given with its own basis. The city survey revised 2019 to 2024 in 2025, and only the revised values are used. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

• DMO KYOTO (major hotels) · Mar 2026
• DMO KYOTO (monthly report) · Oct 2026
• DMO KYOTO (monthly report) · Oct 2026
• DMO KYOTO (monthly report) · Oct 2026
• DMO KYOTO (monthly report) · May 2026
• JMA (climate) · 2025
• JMA (climate) · 1991-2020
• JMA (climate) · 1991-2020
• JMA (seasonal observations) · 2026
• JMA (seasonal observations) · Mar 2026
• JMA (seasonal observations) · 2025
• JR West · 2026
• JTA (minpaku registrations) · Sep 2026
• JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics) · Jul 2026
• JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics) · Jul 2026
• JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics) · Oct 2026
• JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics) · Oct 2026
• JTA (Overnight Travel Statistics) · Oct 2026
• Kyoto City (accommodation tax) · Mar 2026
• Kyoto City (accommodation tax) · Jan 2025
• Kyoto City (accommodation tax) · Mar 2026
• Kyoto City (Nijo Castle) · May 2026
• Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025) · Jun 2026
• Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025) · Jun 2026
• Kyoto City (Tourism Survey 2025) · Jun 2026
• Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art · Oct 2025
• Kyoto City Transportation Bureau · Aug 2026
• Kyoto Prefectural Police · 2026
• Kyoto Prefectural Police · 2026
• Kyoto Prefecture (tourist visitor survey) · Aug 2026