Jiko-in
A Tea Master's Temple Where the Entry Fee Buys a Bowl of Matcha and a View over the Yamato Basin
A small Zen temple in Yamato-Koriyama built in 1663 by the tea master and local lord Katagiri Sek...
Kairyuo-ji
A Four-Metre Five-Storey Pagoda Kept Indoors Since the Nara Period, Next Door to Hokke-ji
A small temple in the north-east corner of what was Empress Komyo's palace, a couple of minutes f...
Kashihara Jingu
Emperor Jimmu's Shrine Under Mount Unebi, With a Main Hall From the Kyoto Palace
A shrine to Emperor Jimmu, the legendary first emperor, built in 1890 at the foot of Mount Unebi ...
Kasugayama Primeval Forest
The Old Shrine Forest Behind Kasuga Taisha, and a Stone Road to the 12th-Century Cave Buddhas
The forest on Mount Kasuga behind Kasuga Taisha, kept as the shrine's sacred ground since hunting...
Kimpu Shrine
The Shrine at the Top of Yoshino's Okusenbon and the Tower Yoshitsune Is Said to Have Kicked His Way Out Of
A small, old shrine in the cedar woods of Okusenbon, the highest part of Mount Yoshino, to the go...
Kimpusen-ji
Yoshino's Zao-do Hall and the Blue Zao Gongen, Shown Only in Spring and Autumn
The head temple of Kimpusen Shugen Honshu, a Shugendo school, halfway up Mount Yoshino. Its main ...
Kitora Tomb
A Small Asuka Tomb Painted with the Four Guardian Animals and a Star Chart, and a Free Museum Where the Real Murals Go on Show
A two-tier round tomb from the late 7th or early 8th century whose chamber was painted with the f...
Koriyama Castle
Koriyama Castle Ruins: Moat Cherry Trees, an Upside-Down Jizo and a Free Deck on the Keep Base
The ruins of the castle Toyotomi Hidenaga made his seat in 1585, seven minutes' walk from Kintets...
Matabei-zakura
A Weeping Cherry Said to Be 300 Years Old, on a Stone Wall in Rural Uda, for About Two Weeks a Year
A single weeping cherry in the hamlet of Hongo, Uda, said to be about 300 years old, 13 metres ta...
Matsuo-dera
A Hilltop Temple West of Yamato-Koriyama That Calls Itself Japan's Oldest for Warding Off Bad Luck
A Shingon temple on Mount Matsuo at the south end of the Yata hills, which by its own account was...
Michi-no-Eki Katsuragi
Taro rice cakes and cut flowers at the Katsuragi exit
A farm market right at the Katsuragi exit of the Minami-Hanna Road, the quick way from Osaka into...
Michi-no-Eki Nara Rekishi Geijutsu Bunkamura
Watch cultural treasures being restored in Tenri
Few roadside stations let you watch conservators at work. At this prefectural culture village in ...
Mount Katsuragi
A Ropeway Up to the Azalea Slopes of Mount Katsuragi, Above Gose
A 959 m mountain on the Nara-Osaka border above Gose, with a wide grassy summit plateau that turn...
Mount Kongo
The 1,125 m Peak Locals Climb Hundreds of Times, Stamp Card in Hand
The highest peak of the Kongo range, 1,125 m, on the Nara-Osaka border. Most people walk up from ...
Mount Sanjogatake
Sanjogatake and Ominesan-ji: the Shugendo Summit Closed to Women, Open 3 May to 23 September
The 1,719 m main peak of the northern Omine range, where Shugendo traces its beginning, with the ...