The purpose of this study is to consider the characteristics of urban space in Kyoto based on the analysis of the distributions of Cemetery. From the ancient times, there was funeral area in the hillsides of three mountains (Higashiyama, Kitayama and Nishiyama), which surround Kyoto City. The urban periphery was very different from the inner urban area in the term of spatial and cultural quality and those two areas have long been interrelated each other. Cemeteries located in the urban periphery had been greatly changed on the process of so called modernization from Meiji Restoration. This paper clarifies the changing of distribution of cemeteries based on the analysis of historical maps. Major point of consideration is the transformation of urban space in Kyoto through the analysis. This paper concludes that the environmental change cemeteries and around cemeteries brought the fall of the relative relation between a life space and urban periphery.