The governor of Kyoto, officially Governor of Kyoto Prefecture, is the chief executive of Kyoto, a prefecture in Japan. It serves from 1868 and comes from Kyoto machi-bugyō. The governors were appointed by the Home Ministry until 1947. The current governor is Takatoshi Nishiwaki, who was inaugurated on April 16, 2018.
Appointed governors, 1868–1947 +Governors of Kyoto PrefecturePast governors of Kyoto Prefecture Portrait Name Term of office Took office Left office Time in office1Nobuatsu Nagatani2Masanao Makimura3Kunimichi Kitagaki4Sadaaki Senda5Hiroshi Nakai6Chiaki Watanabe7Nobumichi Yamada8Tadakatsu Utsumi9Chikaaki Takasaki10Shoichi Omori11Jūshirō Kiuchi12Eitaro Mabuchi13Raizo Wakabayashi14Tokikazu Ikematsu15Hiroshi Ikeda16Tsunenosuke Hamada17Shigoro Sugiyama18Shigeyoshi Omihara19Shin'ichi Sagami20Shinya Kurosaki21Sukenari Yokoyama22Munenori Saito23Shintarō Suzuki24Keiichi Suzuki25Kotora Akamatsu26Jitsuzo Kawanishi27Kyoushiro Ando28Chiyoji Yukizawa29Zentaro Arai30Shigeo Miyoshi31Atsushi Kimura32Yoshiaki Yamamoto
Elected governors, 1947–present +Governors of Kyoto PrefectureSearch Portrait Name Term of office Election Took office Left office Time in office33Atsushi Kimura ()1947 34Torazo Ninagawa () 195035195436195837196238196639197040197441Yukio Hayashida ()197842198243Teiichi Aramaki ()198644199045199446199847Keiji Yamada ()200248200649201050201451Takatoshi Nishiwaki ()2018522022532026
References