Japan · Blueprint
Kyoto Map Poster · Blueprint
Every street, park and waterway of Kyoto, drawn from real map data in the Blueprint palette. Buy the files and print anywhere, or let us print it for you.
- Digital: 4 portrait JPGs (2:3, 3:4, 4:5, ISO) at 300 DPI
- Fits 12×18 in, 30×40 cm, 16×20 in, A4/A3/A2 and more
- Extras ZIP with the 11×14 in version and all ratios in landscape
- Printed sizes A4 to 60×90 cm, £26–£55, shipping included
- Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
About the Kyoto map
a thousand-year grid between the mountains
Kyoto is Japan's great grid: laid out in the 8th century after the Chinese capital Chang'an, its streets still run compass-straight between the mountains that close the city on three sides. The Kamo River draws a clean vertical line through the pattern.
The poster's beauty is in the edges — where the perfect grid dissolves into the temple-studded foothills of Higashiyama and Arashiyama, and the Imperial Palace and Nijo Castle punch rectangular voids into the weave.
Blueprint: honours the 8th-century planners who drew the grid.
Centre on the Imperial Palace with a 6 km radius: the grid fills the frame with the Kamo River as its axis and the mountains fading at the edges. Kyoto in japanese_ink is our single most-loved combination.
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