Tokyo Photo Tour: Architecture and Streets
Tokyo, Japan
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Trip Type: Photography Tours
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Take a photographic journey through the urban landscapes of Shimbashi and Ginza, capturing Tokyo’s contrasts between traditional and modern life. Focus your lens on ultramodern skyscrapers and atmospheric alleyways, and receive tips on technique and composition with an expert local photographer. You’ll learn to artistically frame city inhabitants in their everyday environment, and photograph neon lights and lanterns as evening descends. Numbers are limited to six people to ensure a small-group experience.
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Take a photographic journey through the urban landscapes of Shimbashi and Ginza, capturing Tokyo’s contrasts between traditional and modern life. Focus your lens on ultramodern skyscrapers and atmospheric alleyways, and receive tips on technique and composition with an expert local photographer. You’ll learn to artistically frame city inhabitants in their everyday environment, and photograph neon lights and lanterns as evening descends. Numbers are limited to six people to ensure a small-group experience.Grab your camera and zoom lenses you want to play with on this 2.5-hour afternoon photography tour that starts at Shimbashi station. Throughout the tour, your instructor and guide—an expert photographer—leads you away from touristed paths to lesser-known, albeit not-to-be-missed, spots in Tokyo.
Spend time getting acquainted with several photography techniques, catered to your skill level, before exploring modern-day Shimbashi, an entertainment district known as an office workers’ haven. Photograph the hordes of ‘salary men’ who flock here after work, and learn to create artistic images of city inhabitants.
Expect to learn the best techniques for creating unique compositions and how to use the aperture settings to enhance your photos. You'll also learn about the concept of negative space and its importance in Japanese art and photography.
It’s a short train ride to the next station for a complete change of scene in Ginza, where neon lights and lanterns light a path under elevated train tracks. Capture life in the quaint eateries and atmospheric back alleys, then step into modernity again at the Tokyo International Forum before concluding your tour from an observation deck in front of Tokyo station.
Average walking distance on this photography tour is 1.3 miles (2 km).
Spend time getting acquainted with several photography techniques, catered to your skill level, before exploring modern-day Shimbashi, an entertainment district known as an office workers’ haven. Photograph the hordes of ‘salary men’ who flock here after work, and learn to create artistic images of city inhabitants.
Expect to learn the best techniques for creating unique compositions and how to use the aperture settings to enhance your photos. You'll also learn about the concept of negative space and its importance in Japanese art and photography.
It’s a short train ride to the next station for a complete change of scene in Ginza, where neon lights and lanterns light a path under elevated train tracks. Capture life in the quaint eateries and atmospheric back alleys, then step into modernity again at the Tokyo International Forum before concluding your tour from an observation deck in front of Tokyo station.
Average walking distance on this photography tour is 1.3 miles (2 km).
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