Architectural background of Kyoto train station

Train stations all over the world are important transportation hubs, but the difference between the Kyoto Railway Station that I will introduce today is that it combines many other factors. Even if you arrive at the train station early, you don’t have to wait. , because there are many places where you can go shopping to meet many of your needs.

Kyoto Train Station is the masterpiece of Japanese architect Hara Koji. It is a comprehensive building including hotels, department stores, shopping malls, cinemas, museums, exhibition halls, regional government offices, parking lots, etc. It is like a theme park representing an international city, incorporating foreign design factors: American shopping mall-style atriums, traditional public spaces in Western cities, and Japanese transportation centers. Kyoto Train Station is no longer a pure train station. It has become a large open-air stage in the city, a gathering center for large-scale events, a panoramic viewing point of the ancient city, a shopping mall and a city in the sky. Of course it is also a train station and transportation hub.

The first time I went to Kyoto Station was by taking the Shinkansen from Tokyo. By the way, it turns out that when I talk about Shinkansen to Japanese people, I also use Mandarin to talk about Shinkansen, and they understand it.

We were in a hurry when we arrived. We went to the visitor center to get a Chinese map, asked if we could take the bus to our hotel, and left in a hurry. When I accidentally looked up outside, I thought it was just an ordinary station and shopping stop.

Then because Kyoto Station is the terminal station for many buses, we bought another one-day pass, so in the next few days, when we had something to do, we would take it to Kyoto Station and change buses. Until the last day, I suddenly wanted to eat a famous ramen restaurant, and I found it at Kyoto Station. I walked into Kyoto Station again, looked up, and was shocked. It turns out that I have been inside a huge monster. Only then did I obediently pick up my phone and search Baidu for the history of Kyoto Station, which is the first paragraph I quoted in this article.

Only when I looked up for the first time did I realize that there was so much space up here

Stairs like a ladder to heaven

When I sat on the escalator and walked up one level at a time, I realized Discover how clever the design is here. At that time, I wanted to send it to all students studying architecture. You must come and see such an imaginative building.

1. Below the 2nd floor are various transportation tracks and platforms. Starting from the 1st and 2nd floors are shopping malls, and up to the 9th and 10th floors are food courts. On the top of the building is a scenic city park that overlooks the entire city of Kyoto. There are escalators and steps on the left and right sides of each floor, which can be reached by elevators. The escalators and steps can be switched freely.

The steps are covered with colorful neon lights. Standing on the steps, watching the lights constantly changing, you are also constantly changing, just like being in a psychedelic world. It is also like a ladder to heaven, walking on a ladder of light, like the approach bridge of the legendary Rainbow Bridge. It seems that if you keep walking, you will reach the seat of light. The shopping malls and restaurants on both sides remind you of the noisy, complex and colorful world of this material world.

The huge main body of Kyoto Station

Kyoto Station where the rails intersect

Overlooking the panoramic view of Kyoto

The rooftop park of Kyoto Station

TV Tower

I walked to the top and looked at the passers-by hurried in and out at the bottom. I don’t know how many times I have done this.

On the top floor, the breeze is blowing, the TV tower is close at hand, the whole Kyoto is in front of you, and under your feet is the densely packed traffic arteries intertwined with various tracks. There are people playing around, and some are resting quietly. Such a city park, Giving everyone the opportunity to get in touch with the sky and the breeze, I suddenly understood why many men and women in TV dramas wanted to meet on the rooftop

This is also a place suitable for daze or gathering. Especially after evening.

Integrating aesthetics and functionality into a station, such an imaginative design is a great blooming of people's minds in architecture.