Kyoto City has newly revamped its online official travel guide "Kyoto Kanko Navi" to provide city tourism information. In the full revision of "Kyoto City Tourism and Culture Information System," the "Jibundake-no Area Map," or the personal tourist map generating capability based on visitors' interests, and search functions were also enhanced.

Originally released in 1998, the system has information on 6,000 shrines, temples and others. Supporting four languages, Japanese, English, traditional Chinese and Korean, it has about 320,000 page views per month.

Using the personal tourist map function, site visitors can generate and print their own map displaying locations, history of facilities, and event information by selecting facilities and events of interest on the web site.

In addition, the site provides a new search function on the map to find the locations and explanations of a total of 472 "Komafuda," or guide plates, which outline the history for shrines, temples and other sites. Targeting the increase in French tourists, language support has also been expanded to include French.