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A thought that hit me today when strolling through what is left of Edo Castle ():
What if during the Meiji restoration the Japanese capital remained in Kyoto?
It wasn't done on a whim of course, things will need to be changed to make this work, but it seems doable. Perhaps given the paranoia about foreigners Kyoto could be seen as a much safer place than so near to Yokohama.
Impact?