Possible Clues:

• Where emperors resided before the Meiji Restoration
• Home to the golden pavilion known as Kinkaku-ji
• Silver Pavilion city
• Where Nintendo is headquartered
• Capital of Japan for more than a thousand years
• City with over 400 Shinto shrines
• Where the author Haruki Murakami was born
• Tokyo (anag.), old Japanese capital
• Home of Nijo Castle, built by the Tokugawa shogunate
• Japan’s former capital