Kyoto · Japan
Torii Gates Trail
Journey · Adventure · 3 minVR180 3DPremium
A walk along a trail in Kyoto, Japan, beneath row after row of torii gates. A torii marks the way into a Shinto shrine. In Shinto, kami, the spirits honoured at shrines, can be found in natural things such as mountains, rivers, trees and rocks.
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Walk beneath rows of Torii gates in Kyoto, one of Japan’s most iconic journeys.
An adventurous urban experience in Japan, moving through the scene as if you are walking it yourself, running 3 min in immersive VR180.
Japan is home to Kyoto Temples and Torii Gates. Every experience here is filmed on location in resolutions up to 16K.
Watch natively on Apple Vision Pro, or in the browser on Meta Quest, Pico, and Samsung Galaxy XR.
What to expect
The camera travels through the scene for the full 3 min, so the view opens and changes around you rather than waiting for you to look. Give yourself a moment to settle before you start turning your head.
It is filmed in stereoscopic VR180, which means depth is real: near things sit close, far things stay far, and the street reads at proper scale instead of flattening onto a screen. Look up, look to the edges of the frame, and take your time. There is nothing to steer and nothing to learn.
We tag this one adventurous, and it sits in Japan alongside the rest of what we have filmed there. It is included with a subscription.
Kyoto torii gates in VR180
Torii mark the way into a Shinto shrine, and on a wooded hillside in Kyoto they stand so close together that the path becomes a tunnel. These gates belong to Inari, the deity of rice and, by extension, of trade and prosperity, which is why individuals and businesses have given them by the thousand, each one carrying the donor name and the date on the back of its posts. In places the path splits into two parallel rows of gates. Stone foxes stand along the route as Inari’s messengers, and the tunnels keep climbing most of the way up the hill.
We filmed the gate path as a journey with the camera moving, three minutes climbing through the tunnels of torii rather than standing still at one of them. We tag it Adventurous and the landscape type is urban. The view opens and changes around you as the camera travels, so settle first, then start looking.
A corridor of repeating posts is the single best case for stereoscopic VR180. Repetition at regular spacing is exactly the cue your eyes use to judge distance, so in a headset the tunnel actually recedes: the nearest gate is arm’s length away, the next is a step beyond it, and the path keeps going. On a screen the same shot compresses into a striped pattern.
Kyoto torii gates: common questions
Where are the torii gates in Kyoto?
On a wooded hillside in Kyoto, in the Kansai region of Japan, where the gate paths climb from a shrine up through the trees. It is one of the best known sights in the city.
How many torii gates are there?
Thousands, standing close enough together to form tunnels up the hill. Each one is a donation, with the donor name and date painted on the back of the posts.
Can you walk the torii gates in VR?
Yes. We filmed the path in stereoscopic VR180 as a three minute moving journey, so the gates pass around you as the camera climbs. It plays natively on Apple Vision Pro and in the browser on Meta Quest, Pico and Samsung Galaxy XR.
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