Tourist attractions / Experience spots

Todai-ji Temple

Todai-ji Temple, known for its "Daibutsu-san," or Great Buddha, is a representative temple in Nara, with an imposing appearance of the largest wooden structure in the world. This is a famous temple...

Mt. Wakakusa

Mt. Wakakusa is also famous for the annual Wakakusa Yamayaki event. It is also called Mt. Mikasa because it looks like three hats stacked on top of each other. Entering the mountain from the gates ...

Kasugataisha Shrine

The Shrine lies in a primeval forest of cedars and a kind of Chinese black pines. The brilliant vermillon edifices are beautifully contrasted with their surrounding greenery. Going through the firs...

Nara Park

This vast park covers an approximate area of 660 hectares. It encompasses the eastern portion of Nara City itself, as well Kofuku-ji Temple, Todai-ji Temple, Kasuga Taisha Shrine, and Nara National...

Rokuen(Deer Protected Garden)

Nara Park is home to approximately 1,200 Nara deer, which are designated as a national natural monument. ``Rokuen'' is a protection facility for ``Nara deer'' run by the ``Nara Deer Protection Asso...

Nara National Museum

With a plethora of remarkable Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and other artwork, the Nara Buddhist Sculpture Hall contains close to 100 buddhist sculptures that are on permanent display. Special ex...

Nara Palace Site Historical Park

The extensive open space of lawn seen between Saidaiji Station and Shin-Omiya Station on the Kintetsu Line is the Heijo Palace, the center of Heijo-kyo Capital, which lasted for 74 years over the 7...

Nara City Tourist Information Center

The former station building of JR Nara Station opened on July 25, 2009 as the Nara City General Tourist Information Center. There is also tourist information in foreign languages and a tourist info...

Roadside station “Hari Terrace”

The ``Roadside Station Hari Terrace'' was established at the Hari Interchange where Meihan National Highway and National Route 369 intersect, based on the idea that just as there are ``stations'' ...

Traditional Kamameshi Restaurant Shizuka Kouen Ten

Shizuka, which has been in business for over 50 years in Nara, is a kama-meshi restaurant that carefully cooks each pot over an open fire after receiving your order. It's close to Nara Park, so it'...

Kofuku-ji Temple

The Kofuku-ji Temple, situated next to the Todai-ji Temple, was prosperous as a forerunner of "Buddhism for aristocrats" in the Nara period. Among the seven biggest temples of Nara, the Kofuku-ji T...

Nara Nagomikan

This is one of the largest souvenir shops in Nara Prefecture, near Nara Park. With the heart of Japan and the heart of Japanese hospitality, we carry approximately 3,000 souvenir items, mainly Nara...

Toshodai-ji Temple

This temple was founded in the 3rd year of the Tempyo era(759) by the Chinese Buddhist priest Ganjin Wajo, who, with the invitation of Emperor Shomu, came to Japan after going through all sorts of ...

Sugawara Tenmangu Shrine

The oldest tenmangu (a shrine dedicated to the spirit of Sugawara-no Michizane) in Japan, this shrine is located at the origin of Sugawara-no Michizane’s clan, and enshrines Sugawara-no Michizane h...

Kasugataisha Museum

Kasugataisha Museum stores and exhibits famous treasures, primarily 352 national treasures and 971 important cultural properties, such as armor and swords symbolic of Japan, and Heian artpieces.

Nara Craft Museum

Nara Craft Museum was established to promote the development of Nara's traditional crafts and arts, passed down and honed over the long course of their history. The museum displays not only the art...

Kasuga Taisha Shrine Garden - Manyo Botanical Garden

The manyo botanical garden with the longest history in Japan. Around 300 species of plants appearing in the Man-yo-shu (Japan's oldest collection of poems) are grown here, and each representative p...

Todaiji Temple - Nigatsudo Hall

Nigatsu-do (Second Month Hall) named after the “Shuni-e (omizu-tori)” ceremony held at this place in the second month of the lunar calendar. Nigatsu-do remained despite the fires set by Taira-no Sh...

Yakushi-ji Temple

The establishment of the temple started in the 9th year of the Temmu era(680) with the wish of Emperor Temmu that Empress would recover from her illness. With the transfer of the capital to Nara, t...

Naramachi Lattice House

Naramachi Kōshi-no-ie House is a reconstruction of a traditional townhouse in Nara City. You can directly experience the lifestyles in those townhouses and lean about the way townspeople lived.

Kohfukuji Temple - Kohfukuji National Treasure Hall

With the statue of the Thousand-armed Kannon (Avalokitesvara bodhisattva) at its heart, this hall houses and exhibits historical materials that tell the history of Kohfukuji Temple, such as Buddhis...