Kyoto Station has some pretty neat architecture
Kyoto, Japan
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My Japan Trip : Kyoto Station
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Gamera busting up Kyoto Station in the final battle of Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999).
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視認性抜群なJR京都駅のフォント。
日本語部分はモリサワの新ゴ・ボールド書体。
欧文部分はスイスの超有名フォントデザイナー、アドリアン・フルティガー氏によるフルティガー・ボールド書体。
スイスは世界で最も多くの有名書体デザイナーを輩出している国の一つです。
ちなみに京阪の日本語部分はモリサワの新ゴM、欧文はこちらもJRと同じくフルティガーのボールドとなかなかオシャレ。
近鉄の欧文部分もフルティガーのボールド。神戸市営地下鉄も欧文部分は同じくフルティガーのボールド。
京都市営地下鉄の日本語部分は鎌田経世によるゴシック4550というマニアックさ。
阪急の日本語部分はイワタUD丸ゴシックM、欧文部分は定番のヘルベチカのレギュラー書体、駅番号はUD新ゴ DBという変則表示。
最後に阪神の日本語部分は、視覚デザイン研究所のロゴG DBですが、欧文部分はフリーフォントのベルダナというところが大阪らしいです。
フルティガーのもう一つの代表作にアベニール書体というのがあるのですが、1990年代後半、未完成だった残りのライト・ウェイトとヘビー・ウェイトを当時、ドイツのライノタイプ社に所属していた日本のフォントデザイナー、小林章と共同で制作してアベニールの全書体を完成させ、アベニール・ネクストとしてリリースしています。
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Kyoto 1 day tour, Nomiya shrine, Bamboo forest, Tenryuji temple, Kimono forest, Togetsu bridge, Lunch, Minamiza theatre, Kimono and tea ceremony, Yasaka pagoda, Yasaka shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine Kyoto station, bullet train!!
Kyoto 1 day tour, Nomiya shrine, Bamboo forest, Tenryuji temple, Kimono forest, Togetsu bridge, Lunch, Minamiza theatre, Kimono and tea ceremony, Yasaka pagoda, Yasaka shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine Kyoto station, bullet train!!
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N700 Series Shinkansen. Kyoto Station. Shimogyo Ward. Kyoto, Japan.
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1999年頃に撮影されて、
現像にすら出されていなかった某レンズ付きフィルムを先日発見しまして、
現像お願いしてみたら意外にもフィルムが健全?だったので一部公開してみるシリーズ その3
I found a film I had taken when I visited Kyoto on a school excursion around 1999. Here are some of those photos.
Series 3 of 3
清水寺から撮ったのであろう京都駅と京都タワー
Kyoto Station and Kyoto Tower seen from Kiyomizu-dera Temple.
Summer 1999
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Gamera making a mess in Kyoto Station during the climatic fight in Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999).
At the time this film was released there were probably many people who cheered the two kaiju destroying the station. Completed in 1997, the new station building is very modern design in a very old, very traditional, least modern city in Japan. The local populace were not too keen on it at all.
In the ensuing 20+ years, though, Kyoto has become quite proud of its train station.
Kyoto Station is Japan’s second largest station buildings (Nagoya is larger), and is one of the biggest buildings in the country.
It is 15-storeys tall, and incorporates a shopping mall, a department store, a movie theater, a hotel, government offices, and dozens of restaurants. Heck, the 10th floor is home to nearly two dozen ramen restaurants alone.
This staircase at one end of the station has animated lights in each step that display numerous different messages and images all day long.
Among the numerous other sites in Kyoto that one should see when visiting - temples, shrines, Toei Studios, etc. - the train station is worth a look as well.
I’m just glad they were able to repair all the damage Gamera and Iris did by the time I visited.
Photos by me, except for Gamera of course.
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