well I've been learning japanese and I just noticed tokyo is just kyoto backwards (when dealing with the hirigana alphabet) Is there a significance in this? seeing that before the Meiji restoration and the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate kyoto was the capital and after the restoration edo was renamed to Tokyo when the emporer moved there making it the capital. Any further information would be excellent.

According to this site:

The names of Japan's first and current capitals, Kyoto and Tokyo, appear to us to be made up of the same two elements reversed, but in fact they have only one element in common. The elements of Tokyo are old borrowings from Middle Chinese: to means "east" and kyo means "capital," so together they mean "east(ern) capital." Chinese has another word for "capital," pronounced do, whose Middle Chinese ancestor was borrowed into Japanese as to, "capital, large city." This is found in the name Kyoto, which was Japan's capital from 794 to 1192. The first part of Kyoto, kyo, is in fact the same word for "capital" found in Tokyo. Kyoto thus means "capital city."

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