The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of sight-seeing courses described in guidebooks of Kyoto in the first half of the Edo period, through the analysis of the Inner-city(Rakuchu). Compared with the Outer-city(Rakugai) courses being stereotyped in two styles, the Inner-city courses are described in various styles. By analyzing the reality of the sight-seeing courses, the starting points and the spatial cognition of the Inner and the Outer-city, we can understand that the sight-seeing in the guidebooks was constructed in both realistic and imaginary ways.
