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...
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...
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...
Chugu-ji
A Nunnery Beside Horyu-ji's Yumedono, Kept for One Dark Wooden Bodhisattva
A small nunnery right next to the Yumedono in Horyu-ji's east precinct. It is kept for its main i...
Hokke-ji
Empress Komyo's Nunnery, Where the Eleven-faced Kannon Comes Out Three Times a Year
A working nunnery on the site of Empress Komyo's palace, just east of the Heijo Palace Site. Its ...
Ishibutai Kofun
A Bare Stone Burial Chamber in Asuka You Can Walk Into, Widely Thought to Be the Tomb of Soga no Umako
An early 7th-century burial chamber of about 30 huge stones whose earth mound has worn away, leav...
Saidai-ji
Three Minutes from Yamato-Saidaiji Station, a Temple Where Tea Is Passed Round in a Giant Bowl
Once the western counterpart of Todai-ji, now a set of Edo-period halls three minutes from a busy...
Tachibana-dera
The Temple That Marks the Traditional Birthplace of Prince Shotoku, with a Two-Faced Stone and an Old Pagoda Base
A Tendai temple on the spot where, by tradition, Prince Shotoku was born. The Asuka-period temple...
Yamanobe-no-michi
The Old Road Along the Foot of the Hills, 16 km from Tenri to Sakurai via Isonokami Shrine and Omiwa Shrine
A walking route along the western foot of the hills east of the Nara basin, often called Japan's ...
Yoshimizu Shrine
The Yoshino Shoin Where Yoshitsune Hid, Go-Daigo Held Court and Hideyoshi Came for the Cherries
A small shrine on Mount Yoshino that was Yoshimizu-in, a monks' lodging of Kimpusen-ji, until the...
Asuka-dera
The Asuka Daibutsu, Dated by the Temple to 609 and Called by It Japan's Oldest Buddha Statue, Photos Allowed
A small hall in the fields of Asuka on the site of the temple Soga no Umako began in 588. Inside ...
Dorogawa Onsen
A Mountain Inn Town at the Foot of Omine, Where Pilgrims Still Set Out
A street of old wooden inns at about 820 meters in the Omine mountains, built to lodge pilgrims h...
Gojo Shinmachi
Gojo Shinmachi, an Edo-Period Merchant Street on the Old Kishu Road by the Yoshino River
About 750 m of white-plastered merchant houses along the old Kishu Kaido on the north bank of the...
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...
Uda Matsuyama
A Quiet Old Medicine and Kuzu Town in Uda, with an Herb Garden Planted in 1729
A former castle town in the Ouda part of Uda City that turned into a merchant town for medicines,...