Shoryaku-ji
A Valley Temple Southeast of Nara Where Refined Sake Began, at Its Best in the November Maples
A mountain temple about 4 km up a valley road from Route 169, where medieval monks worked out the...
Chogaku-ji
A Temple on the Yamanobe-no-michi with a Hell Painting on Show from 23 October to 30 November
A quiet temple halfway along the Yamanobe-no-michi in Tenri. From 23 October to 30 November the m...
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 ...
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...
Tanize Suspension Bridge
A 297-Meter Village Footbridge That Sways 54 Meters Above the Totsukawa River
A steel-wire footbridge about 297 meters long and 54 meters above the Totsukawa River, built in 1...
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,...
Yamato-Koriyama Goldfish Town
Yamato-Koriyama's Goldfish Town: Tanks Along the Shopping Street, a Free Goldfish Museum and the Dyers' Canal Street
The old castle town below Koriyama Castle has bred goldfish for about 300 years and still has aro...
Akishino-dera
A Small Temple of Moss in Northwest Nara, Kept for Japan's Only Old Gigeiten Statue
A quiet temple a short bus ride north of Yamato-Saidaiji, with a National Treasure main hall from...
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...
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...
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 ...
Tenkawa Daibenzaiten Shrine
A Benzaiten Shrine for Performers in the Omine Valleys, Where Noh Is Still Staged
A shrine to Benzaiten, goddess of water, eloquence and the performing arts, in the village of Ten...
Tsukigase Plum Grove
About 10,000 Plum Trees on the Slopes of a River Gorge in Far-East Nara City
Around 10,000 red and white plum trees on both sides of the Nabari river gorge (called the Satsuk...
Byakugo-ji
Stone Steps Up the Foot of Mount Takamado to a View Across Nara, with a 400-Year-Old Camellia
A small hillside temple south-east of central Nara, under a kilometre from Shin-Yakushi-ji, reach...