Location List

You can go around the sightseeing spots in Nara by the rickshaws.

There are many souvenir shops in the square in front of station.

297 meters long and 54 meters high.

Elementary school in Tenkawa village.

There are some halls in the temple and Shishikaku was built as a guest house with stained glass in 1885 attracts attention.

Built in 858

Worshiped as a god of entertainment.

There are Naramachi Museum, House with lattice, Imanishi family's study hall etc. in the area.

There is Dorogawa hot spring and Mitarai canyon on the foot of Ominesan.

Famous for bass fishing.

Dam located in Murou-ku, Uda city.

You can see beautiful maple leaves.

The headstream of the river is the mountain massif of Ryumon and Takatori.

In September, the lush green, terraced rice fields of Inabuchi village in Asuka are enhanced by thousands of red amaryllis (also called red spider lilies), marking the transition to Autumn. The Ama...

On the approach to Kasugataisha Shrine, this walled garden features around 250 varieties of plants, described in Japan’s oldest collection of poetry, the Manyoshu. A pleasant strolling garden in al...

To help Nara’s deer population co-exist peacefully with each other and with humans, the antlers of the aggressive males have been ritually cut each autumn. Unchanged since the Edo period, this is a...

Every spring, people flock to see this magnificent weeping cherry blossom tree, believed to be around 300 years old. Its blossoms are pale pink, in contrast with a row of hot pink peach blossoms be...

Hydrangea flowers bloom just before the rainy season of mid-June, their watery blues and purples against deep green leaves, enhanced by the soft rain. There are over 1,000 hydrangea shrubs around Y...

In early spring, Tsukigase is one of the best places in Nara to view plum (“ume”) blossoms. The flower is often mentioned in Japanese haiku or renga; it is also said to offer protection against evi...

Cherry blossom season is the main event around Mt Yoshino, with around 30,000 trees of 200 varieties, that bloom all over the mountain from late March to mid-April. Extra buses take visitors up to ...

Renowned for night views over the Nara basin and the lights of Osaka, Mt Ikoma is accessible by cable car from Toriimae Station. In summer, it’s a good location to see the fireworks festivals acros...

From the top of Amakashi-no-Oka hill, you get a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains. From early to mid-spring, plum and cherry blossoms are in bloom. The view is especially nice around sunset.

Daimonji Okuribi is a fire festival held on the evening of August 15 to honour the spirits of fallen soldiers and pray for peace. As a memorial service is conducted with a mixture of Buddhist and S...

A relatively recent event first held in 1999, this lantern festival takes place nightly from August 5 to 14 every year, turning World Heritage rich Nara Park into a sea of candlelight. All are enco...