Sydney is about 4.6 times bigger than Kyoto.

Kyoto is approximately 828 sq km, while Sydney (the 30 councils of metropolitan Sydney, without the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Wollondilly and the Central Coast) is approximately 3,810 sq km, making Sydney 360% larger than Kyoto.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kyoto vs. Sydney uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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