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| Large atrium of Kyoto Station |
The present JR Kyoto Station is the fourth construction built in the course of one of the commemorative projects to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of the establishment of ancient capital Kyoto in 794. Kyoto served as the capital until 1868 when the Meiji restoration was carried out and the emperor left Kyoto for Edo in 1869. Seven appointed architects from Japan and abroad submitted their plan in 1994. The one by HARA Hiroshi was chosen. The architect limited the height to 60 meters (or low) but it’s a 470-meter-long building from west to east. Some say the station might not be a skyscraper but looks like a high-rise building lying on its side. The station, completed in 1997, might be a space ship landed on the earth and took root.
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