kyouto e kankou ni ittara, mazu hakubutsukan e ikitai desu.

to be

Breakdown of kyouto e kankou ni ittara, mazu hakubutsukan e ikitai desu.

• 行いく: to go
• 〜たい: to want to
• 〜たら: conditional form

Questions & Answers about kyouto e kankou ni ittara, mazu hakubutsukan e ikitai desu.

What does 行ったら mean here?

行ったら is the -たら conditional form of 行く.

• 行く = to go
• 行った = went
• 行ったら = if/when someone goes

So in this sentence, 京都へ観光に行ったら means if I go sightseeing in Kyoto or when I go sightseeing in Kyoto.

In real use, -たら often covers both ideas:

• a real condition: if I go
• a likely future situation: when I go

Here it sounds like the speaker is imagining a future trip.

Why is a past-looking form used in 行ったら if the sentence is about the future?

This is a very common point of confusion. In Japanese, the -た form is used inside some grammar patterns that do not mean past time by themselves.

In -たら, the -た form is just part of the conditional structure.

So:

• 行った by itself = went
• 行ったら = if/when someone goes

It does not mean if I went here. It means a future or hypothetical condition.

Why is へ used after 京都?