A binaural field recording made while walking around the entrance area of Kyoto Station, Japan on 27th March 2009. ← Japan : Waiting in the Veloce coffee shop, Kyoto Station Train from London Paddington to Heathrow...
The day of our return to Tokyo we got to Kyoto Station quite early. To kill time we went for a coffee in Caffe Veloce. My girlfriend wanted to do some last minute gift buying in one of the shopping centres in the station complex so I took the opportunity to record the...
This speaks for itself really. The Shinkansen trains are fantastic and I couldn’t resist making some recordings from the Kyoto Station platform while we were waiting to jump on. Recorded on 27 March 2009 ← Metro Boy guest mix for MANTIS features some of my...
Another of our walks in Kyoto followed what was called The Philosopher’s Walk (哲学の道 Tetsugaku no Michi), famed for it’s beauty and popularity as a place of meditation of Philosophy Professor Kitaro Nishida. We hired bikes from K’s Place (the...
A lot of our time in Kyoto was spent loosely following the walking routes outlined in our guidebooks. The day I made this recording we had started out by catching the train northwesterly to the Arashiyama district and visiting the Tenryū-ji temple and gardens. Leaving...