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Kyoto Modern Architecture & Design Architect-Led PRIVATE Tour

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  • 5 ore
  • Cancellazione gratuita fino a 24 h prima
  • 2 lingue
  • Tour privato

In evidenza

Many visitors to Kyoto are fascinated by its traditional architecture, but often wonder how modern architecture fits into a city so deeply rooted in the past. This tour is designed to explore exactly that—discovering how contemporary ideas, materials, and design have found their place within Kyoto’s historic landscape. Your guide for this tour will be an architect and design writer, an expatriate who has lived in Japan for nearly a decade. [ Consideration ] If you’re not particularly interested in architecture, design, philosophy, or psychology, this tour may not be the right fit for you. [ Notice ] This tour is completely private, meaning it will be only the travelers in your booking—no one else will join.

Incluso

Cosa è incluso

  • Hotel Pickup (no vehicle)
  • Customizable Private Tour
  • Admission for Garden of Fine Arts
  • One small souvenir per person

Cosa non è incluso

  • Private transportation
  • Costs

Itinerario

  1. [ Designed by Sachio Otani · Opened 1966 ] This gives you a completely different generation of Japanese modernism. The building uses bold geometric forms inspired partly by traditional Japanese architecture and is deliberately integrated with the surrounding landscape. The center itself describes its architecture as combining upright and inverted trapezoids and using the surrounding mountains as a kind of borrowed scenery.

    1 h

  2. [ Designed by Tadao Ando · Opened 1994 ] This building immediately introduces Ando’s language: exposed concrete, geometry, water, movement, and carefully controlled views. It is essentially an architecture-as-experience project rather than a conventional museum.

    1 hIngresso incluso

  3. [ Designed by Arata Isozaki · Opened 1995 ] A completely different approach to monumentality and geometry. The complex forms, symmetry, circulation, and relationship between structure and public space make it useful for discussing how Japanese architects approached large cultural buildings in the late 20th century.

    45 min

  4. [ Designed by Kenjirō Maeda · Opened 1933 ] Explore one of Kyoto’s landmark modernist buildings, where its 1933 architecture by Kenjirō Maeda is thoughtfully integrated with contemporary additions by Jun Aoki and Tezzo Nishizawa.

    45 min

  5. [ Designed by Hiroshi Hara · Opened 1997 ] We’ll walk along the Sky Walk, away from the crowds, using the station’s elevated passageways. It's probably the best place to discuss architecture at an urban scale: enormous interior volume, circulation, commercial functions, transportation, light, and the tension between Kyoto's historic identity and an extremely futuristic building.

    1 h

Cancellazione

Cancellazione gratuita fino a 24 ore prima dell’inizio, con rimborso totale.

Da sapere prima di partire

Prelievo
Il prelievo è incluso per tutti.
Tipo di biglietto
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Gestito da
Nader
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

How it compares in Kyoto

  • Its from-price is 82% above the median of the 1713 experiences we list in Kyoto.
  • It is longer than most of them.
  • The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Kyoto

Kyoto, capitale imperiale del Giappone per oltre mille anni, è una città di templi, giardini, case di legno e tradizioni raffinate.

La città custodisce molti dei luoghi più preziosi del Giappone. Le migliaia di portali torii vermigli del Fushimi Inari Taisha salgono su una montagna boscosa, il Padiglione d'Oro del Kinkaku-ji scintilla sul suo stagno e il palco di legno del Kiyomizu-dera sporge dal pendio sopra la città. Il giardino di roccia del Ryoan-ji e i terreni muschiosi del Ginkaku-ji invitano alla contemplazione silenziosa.

Top-ranked sights in Kyoto: Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Inari Taisha), Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), Kiyomizu-dera Temple.

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