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Nara
Home to Japan largest bronze Buddha in a colossal wooden hall.
Over a thousand free-roaming deer that bow for crackers.
Nara's vermilion Fujiwara shrine, famous for thousands of bronze and stone lanterns lining a forested mountain approach.
Home to the world's oldest wooden buildings, this 7th-century temple was Japan's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
An imperial temple in Nishinokyo whose original 8th-century East Pagoda is nicknamed 'frozen music' for its rhythm.
The serene temple founded by the blind Chinese monk Ganjin, whose Golden Hall is the archetype of classical Japanese design.
One of Japan's very first temples, hidden in the old Naramachi quarter, with a roof of 1,400-year-old tiles.
A humble 8th-century hall in a quiet backstreet, guarding a National Treasure ring of twelve clay Heavenly Generals.
The graceful former head convent of Japan's national nunneries, home to a National Treasure Kannon and a serene garden.
A small free shrine to the deity of ice, famous for a weeping cherry that is among the first to bloom in Nara each spring.
Nara's iconic five-story pagoda and the ancient headquarters of the Fujiwara clan, home to Japan's beloved Ashura statue.
A gentle grass-covered mountain above Nara Park with sweeping sunset views and its own winter fire festival.
Nara's finest strolling garden, famous for borrowing distant temple gates and mountains into its own design.
Three contrasting gardens - pond, moss and tea-flower - beside the Yoshiki River, usually free for overseas visitors.
A UNESCO-listed ancient forest behind Kasuga Taisha, protected as sacred and untouched for over a thousand years.
A willow-fringed pond mirroring Kofuku-ji's five-storey pagoda - one of Nara's classic reflection views.
A graceful hexagonal pavilion floating over Sagiike Pond in Nara Park, mirrored in the water for classic reflective views.
Japan's oldest Manyo garden, growing around 300 plants named in the ancient Manyoshu poetry anthology.
A famous river-gorge grove of thousands of plum trees that scents the whole valley in late winter.
Japan's most famous cherry-blossom mountain, with 30,000 trees rising in tiers up a sacred UNESCO-listed peak.
Nara's most famous mochi shop, known for lightning-fast mochi-pounding and warm mugwort mochi made fresh all day.
A historic Naramachi sake brewery, founded 1884, where you can taste Harushika sake in a former monk's residence.
A long-established restaurant serving kakinoha-zushi, Nara's iconic mackerel sushi wrapped in salted persimmon leaves.
A rustic thatched-roof teahouse in Nara Park serving udon and sweets, where wild deer wander among the outdoor tables.
