Tourist attractions / Experience spots

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.

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'...

Hokke-ji Temple

Hokkeji is a dignified nunnery, and one of the Three Yamato Monzeki. Empress Kōmyō had it built on the site of the residence of Fujiwara-no Fuhito, as the head of all provincial nunneries. It was c...

Byakugo-ji Temple

Located on a hill at the western foot of Mt. Takamadoyama, the temple grounds overlook the city of Nara. There are various theories about its origin, with one saying that it was built on the site o...

Central Golden, Kohfukuji Temple

Central Golden Hall is the focal point of the Kohfukuji compound and the temple's most important structure. Repeatedly destroyed by fire and rebuilt since its construction, the Central Golden Hall ...

Toshodaiji Temple - Korō (Shariden)

The Korō is a two story building built on the east side of the center of the main hall and the Kōdō Lecture Hall. Although it is named the Korō, it currently enshrines busshari (Buddhist relics) br...

Daian-ji Temple

A temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect. The Emperor Jomei first named the Kumagori-shōja monastery of Shōtoku Taishi, Dai-ji, the original name. Then it became Daikandai-ji in Fujiwara-kyo period, an...

Naramachi Nigiwai-no-Ie (Naramachi Traditional House)

Naramachi Nigiwai-no-Ie (Naramachi Traditional House) is a reformed 100-year-old townhouse with a tea ceremony room, hearth, and passage garden. It is a facility where you can experience the lifest...

Todaiji Temple - Shōrō (bell-tower)

The bell-tower (Shoro) which holds the grand bell was reconstructed in 1210. Todaiji Temple’s bell (National Treasure) is from the time when Todaiji Temple was established. It stands at a tot...

Mausoleum of Emperor Suinin (Horai-san Tumulus)

keyhole-shaped tumulus from the early Kofun period (early 5th century) that is approximately 227 meters long and surrounded by a moat filled with water, and its beautiful appearance is suitable for...

Sarusawa-ike Pond

A pond with a circumference of 360 meters located in Nara Park. The sight of the five-storied pagoda of Kofukuji Temple reflected in the water along with the surrounding willow trees is so beautifu...

Shika no Fune

The Nara Town Minami Tourist Information Center "Shika no Fune" is open as a complex with a tourist information center, a cafeteria, and a café. It was built in the early Taisho period as a branch...

Naramachi-Karakuri Toy Museum

Naramachi-Karakuri Toy Museum is located in one of Naramachi’s traditional townhouses, and it is an interactive facility where one can actually touch and play with the traditional toys.

Joruriji Temple (Kutaiji)

Koshin-do

A blue-faced Kongo statue called ``Koshin-san'' is enshrined here. This amulet in the shape of a monkey used by Mr. Koshin is often hung from the eaves of houses in Nara Town as a talisman. It is c...

Mausoleum of Emperor Shomu/Empress Komyo

Immediately west of Tamon Castle Ruins. Many tombs of emperors and members of the imperial family from the Nara period were built in this Mt. Saho area, including the tombs of Emperor Genmei and Ge...

Obitoke-dera Temple

It is an old temple of the Kegon sect and is commonly called Obikai Jizo. It is said that in the early Heian period, Emperor Montoku's empress Fujiwara Akiko prayed to the temple's principal image ...