Tourist attractions / Experience spots

Former Residence of the Yagyu Clan’s Chief Retainer

This is the former residence of Suzu Oyamada, a chief retainer who helped rebuild the Yagyu clan's finances. The majestic stone wall is impressive, and it is inscribed that it was built by Owari st...

Oiwake Plum Grove

The plum grove has been restored for the first time in 10 years. (February 2016) Oiwake Plum Grove was able to plant 400 plum trees in collaboration with SPS Kizunaya. The plum trees planted by the...

Konin-ji Temple

The temple and hall are lined up on the side of a small mountain 180 meters above sea level, with the main hall at the center. It is said that Kobo Daishi founded this temple in 814 at the request ...

Shoryaku-ji　Temple

It was founded in 992 by Kanetoshi, the son of Kanpaku Kujo Kaneie, at the request of Emperor Ichijo. It was once a large temple with many temples, but now only the main hall, bell tower, and Fukuj...

Heijokyu-seki Shiryo-kan (Nara Palace Site Museum)

This museum exhibits the results of the excavations of the ruins of Heijo Palace, which the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties has continued from 1959 to the present day. In a...

Irie Taikichi Historic Residence Site

The former residence of Irie Taikichi, a photographer who took photos of Nara’s Buddhist statues, scenery, traditional events, and flowers appearing in the Man’yōshū, for over half a ce...

Takisaka-no-michi path

Takisaka-no-michi path is the first half of Yagyu Kaido (if starting from downtown Nara City). This is an elegant course with cobblestone pavements paved with uneven stones. The stone pavement is t...

Hiramune Naraten

It is located in Naramachi, on the south side of Sarusawa Pond. Feel free to visit us even if you are alone. We also sell persimmon leaf sushi.

Unagiku Nara Main Branch

Unagiku is an eel specialty restaurant that opened in 2016 at the other end of Kikusuiro. Authentic Edomae style using only domestic live eel. The sauce that has been loved for a long time is a sec...

Nara sake specialty store Nara Izumi Yusai

We carefully select and sell over 120 types of local sake brewed at 29 sake breweries in Nara Prefecture. You can also sample all of them for a fee.

Nara City Onjokan Hall

The audio hall, with its beautiful tiled roof and white walls, aims to encourage intergenerational exchange and revitalize local performing arts through children's songs and traditional performing ...

Museum Yamato Bunkakan

A modern building in a quiet environment surrounded by pine forests. Art and crafts, mainly from Japan, China, and Korea, are exhibited eight times a year. In addition, you can enjoy a variety of f...

Shinyakushi-ji Temple

Empress Kōmyō built this temple in 747 as an invocation for her husband, the Emperor Shōmu, to recover from his illness. It used to be a historic temple with a complete seven-structured temple comp...

Kairyuo-ji Temple

Early in the 8th century, Kairyuoji-temple was built closest to Heijō Palace at the wish of Empress Kōmyō to serve as an invocation for a safe passage of Japanese envoys voyaging to Tang Dynasty Ch...

Minamiichi Ebisu-jinja Shrine

It is said that it was founded during the Kamakura period. The first ebisu is held on January 5th every year (first ebisu of Minamiichi ), and it is crowded with many worshipers.

Touge no Chaya

little further down the path of Ishikiri Pass, where it is said that stones for temples were quarried in the past, there is an old-fashioned mountain pass teahouse where people who used to travel a...

Uwanabe Tumulus/Konabe Tumulus

It is a huge keyhole-shaped tumulus with a trench surrounding it, all covered in green pine trees. The east side is Uwanabe, which has a total length of 255 meters, and the slightly smaller west si...

Naya Kobo

Akahada ware is made in the workshop, which is a renovated townhouse, and many of the pieces are on display. Special exhibitions, such as exhibitions of new works held several times a year, incorpo...

Koshin-do

A blue-faced Kongo statue called ``Koshin-san'' is enshrined here. This amulet in the shape of a monkey used by Mr. Koshin is often hung from the eaves of houses in Nara Town as a talisman. It is c...

Korin-ji Temple

One of the temples of Gangoji Temple, and the family place of Fujiwara Toyonari. There is Toyonari's tumulus within the precincts, and wooden statues of Toyonari and Princess Chujo are enshrined in...