Kyoto Concert Hall

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The Kyoto Concert Hall adjacent to Kyoto Botanical Garden at Kitayama Station of the Kyoto subway Karasuma Line, was built to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of Kyoto.

The Kyoto Concert Hall is a modernist piece of architecture by Arata Isozaki, one of Japan's most famous architects, responsible for such buildings as the Art Tower in Mito, the Nara Centennial Hall in Nara, which it resembles, and the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Kitakyushu as well as numerous projects overseas.

The Kyoto Concert Hall was completed in 1995 as part of the celebrations of the 1,200 year anniversary of the founding of Kyoto as the capital city of Japan in 794.

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The main concert hall seats over 1,800 people, while the smaller Ensemble Hall Murata has seats for 500 people and is used mainly for recitals.

Kyoto Concert Hall is home to the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (KSO) as well as providing a varied calendar of international and domestic classical music by both professional and amateur orchestras. There a number of music festivals at the Kyoto Concert Hall each year including the Autumn Kyoto Music Festival in November.

The main hall boasts a 90-stop pipe organ, built by German organ builders Johannes Klais Orgelbau.

The entrance to Kyoto Concert Hall has a water feature and small Japanese garden.

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The Kyoto Concert Hall is close to the Kamo River, Kyoto Botanical Garden, Kyoto Prefectural University and Notre Dame Women's University on the upmarket shopping street of Kitayama. Take a subway from Kyoto Station to Kitayama Station or Kyoto buses #4 or #北8.

Access

Kyoto Concert Hall (kyotoconcerthall.org)
1-26 Hangi-cho, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto, 606-0823
Tel: 075 711 2980

Closed the 1st and the 3rd Monday of every month

Kyoto Concert Hall, Kyoto