| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Kyoto |
| Native Name: | 京都府知事 |
| Incumbent: | Takatoshi Nishiwaki |
| Type: | Governor (Japan) |
| Status: | Head of government |
| Abbreviation: | Governor of Kyoto Prefecture |
| Termlength: | Four years, no term limits |
| Constituting Instrument: | Local Autonomy Act Article 139 |
| Inaugural: | Nobuatsu Nagatani |
| Deputy: | Vice Governor of Kyoto Prefecture |
| Salary: | per month (2020)[1] |
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.[2]
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | Nobuatsu Nagatani | |||||
| 2 | Masanao Makimura | |||||
| 3 | Kunimichi Kitagaki | |||||
| 4 | Sadaaki Senda | |||||
| 5 | Hiroshi Nakai | |||||
| 6 | Chiaki Watanabe | |||||
| 7 | Nobumichi Yamada | |||||
| 8 | Tadakatsu Utsumi | |||||
| 9 | Chikaaki Takasaki | |||||
| 10 | Shoichi Omori | |||||
| 11 | Jūshirō Kiuchi | |||||
| 12 | Eitaro Mabuchi | |||||
| 13 | Raizo Wakabayashi | |||||
| 14 | Tokikazu Ikematsu | |||||
| 15 | Hiroshi Ikeda | |||||
| 16 | Tsunenosuke Hamada | |||||
| 17 | Shigoro Sugiyama | |||||
| 18 | Shigeyoshi Omihara | |||||
| 19 | Shinichi Sagami | |||||
| 20 | Shinya Kurosaki | |||||
| 21 | Sukenari Yokoyama | |||||
| 22 | Munenori Saito | |||||
| 23 | Shintarō Suzuki | |||||
| 24 | Keiichi Suzuki | |||||
| 25 | Kotora Akamatsu | |||||
| 26 | Jitsuzo Kawanishi | |||||
| 27 | Kyoushiro Ando | |||||
| 28 | Chiyoji Yukizawa | |||||
| 29 | Zentaro Arai | |||||
| 30 | Shigeo Miyoshi | |||||
| 31 | Atsushi Kimura | |||||
| 32 | Yoshiaki Yamamoto | |||||
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 33 | Atsushi Kimura (木村惇) | 1947 | ||||
| 34 | Torazo Ninagawa (蜷川虎三) | 1950 | ||||
| 35 | 1954 | |||||
| 36 | 1958 | |||||
| 37 | 1962 | |||||
| 38 | 1966 | |||||
| 39 | 1970 | |||||
| 40 | 1974 | |||||
| 41 | Yukio Hayashida (林田悠紀夫) | 1978 | ||||
| 42 | 1982 | |||||
| 43 | Teiichi Aramaki (荒巻禎一) | 1986 | ||||
| 44 | 1990 | |||||
| 45 | 1994 | |||||
| 46 | 1998 | |||||
| 47 | Keiji Yamada (山田啓二) | 2002 | ||||
| 48 | 2006 | |||||
| 49 | 2010 | |||||
| 50 | 2014 | |||||
| 51 | Takatoshi Nishiwaki (西脇隆俊) | 2018 | ||||
| 52 | 2022 | |||||