Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in Tokyo for summit talks with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe after completing the first leg his visit to the former imperial capital city of Kyoto.

During his three-day stay in the capital city, Modi will hold talks with Abe tomorrow to bolster bilateral security and economic ties. The two leaders, who share cordial relations, will have substantive summit meeting during which they will look at ways to take the strategic and global partnership forward.

Cooperation in the fields of defence, civil nuclear, infrastructure development and rare earth materials is expected to top the agenda of the discussions.

During his two-day stay in Kyoto, Modi witnessed signingof a pact under which his constituency Varanasi will be developed as a smart city in partnership with the Japanese city, which is a confluence of heritage and modernity.

Abe had specially come to Kyoto from Tokyo to meet Modi and be with him. The Japanese Prime Minister rarely greet a foreign leader outside the national capital.

On the second day of his Japan tour, Modi today offered prayers at two prominent ancient Buddhist temples in Kyoto and sought help from a Japanese Nobel Prize-winning stem cell researcher to develop a treatment for the Sickle Cell Anaemia.