Walk beneath thousands of Torii gates at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto, one of Japan’s most iconic journeys.
A 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 Fushimi Inari. 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.
Fushimi Inari torii gates in VR180
Fushimi Inari Taisha stands at the foot of Mount Inari in southern Kyoto and is the head shrine of the roughly 30,000 Inari shrines across Japan. Its founding is dated to 711. Inari is the deity of rice, and by extension of trade and prosperity, which is why the paths up the mountain are lined with thousands of vermilion torii donated by individuals and businesses, each one carrying the donor name and the date on the back of its posts. The densest stretch, the Senbon Torii or thousand gates, splits into two parallel rows just behind the main hall. Stone foxes stand along the route as Inari’s messengers. The full circuit to the 233 metre summit takes a couple of hours, and the grounds are open at any hour.
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.
