Kameoka (亀岡市; -shi) is a city located in Kyoto, Japan. This article is about the Japanese municipality system. ... KyÅto Prefecture (京都府; KyÅto-fu) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ...
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 94,223 and the density of 418.96 persons per km². The total area is 224.90 km². 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The city was founded on January 1, 1955. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kyoto has been the cultural center of Japan for a millennium, and it is fortuitous that sakura ishi are from an area so intimately associated with an admiration for cherry blossoms.
This is the consequence of postmetamorphic alteration of the hornfels in the Kameoka area that has resulted in the pseudomorphic replacement of the original cordierite crystals by fine-grained mica.
Sakura ishi from Kameoka (pseudomorphs after cordierite-indialite) and from Daimonji-yama in Kyoto (unaltered cordierite-indialite) are found in metamorphosed clay and sand-rich sediments of the Mesozoic Tamba group (Imoto 1984).
Kameoka attracts many tourists, but if the castle was standing today Kameoka wouldprobably be a major tourist destination as there's much to see and do in and near the city.
A ride in a flat-bottom boat through the gorge from Kameoka to Kyoto is a beautiful trip alternating between swift rapids and tranquil pools.
In the early 1990s, Kameoka was home to a branch campus of Oklahoma State University called OSU-K. The K was for Kyoto since OSU is a state university and Kyoto is the state, or prefecture, in which the campus was located.
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