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奈良県 · Tourism

Asuka

明日香村中和

Where the original form of the Japanese state took shape. Ishibutai, and the Takamatsuzuka murals.

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Naramachi

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A town that grew up on the old grounds of Gangoji. Migawari-zaru charms hang from the eaves.

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Wakakusa Yamayaki

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The whole hill is burned in January. Thirty-three hectares go up in flame.

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Omizutori

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Not once broken in over 1,270 years. Worshippers stand to catch the sparks from the great torches.

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Tsukigase Plum Grove

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Ten thousand plum trees. They were first planted to take ubai, a dye.

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Soni Highland

曽爾村東和

Thirty-eight hectares of grassland, turning gold in autumn.

奈良県 · Tourism

Yamanobe no Michi

桜井市ほか中和

Held to be the oldest road in Japan, running from Miwa to Nara and linking burial mounds and shrines.

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Nara National Museum

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It holds the Shosoin exhibition each autumn. The Buddhist sculpture hall is itself an Important Cultural Property.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Nara National Museum

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The most systematic display of Japanese Buddhist art; its 1894 building is an Important Cultural Property, and the Shosoin treasures are shown here ea…

奈良県 · Art & museums

Todaiji

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Among the largest wooden buildings on earth; its 8.4-metre guardians were carved by Unkei, Kaikei and their workshop in 69 days.

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Todaiji Museum

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Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Shosoin

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A storehouse of stacked triangular beams that has kept Persian and Tang objects safe for thirteen centuries.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kofukuji National Treasure Hall

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The Ashura figure gives a god of war the face of a boy; made in light dry lacquer, it has no equal from the 8th century.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Kasuga Taisha Museum

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So rich in Heian armour it is called a second Shosoin; three thousand donated lanterns stand in its grounds.

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Yakushiji

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Its east pagoda has three storeys but reads as six, its skirt roofs giving the rhythm once called frozen music.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Toshodaiji

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Founded by Ganjin, who reached Japan blind on his sixth attempt; its main hall is the only Nara-period one surviving complete.

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Gangoji

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Japan's oldest roof tiles are still on this roof - made in 588 and shedding rain for fourteen centuries.

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Shinyakushiji

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Twelve guardian figures ringing the icon on a circular platform, some still bearing their 8th-century paint.

奈良県 · Art & museums

Akishinodera

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The muse of the arts: her head is 8th-century dry lacquer, her body a Kamakura replacement - one figure of two eras.

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Hokkeji

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A Kannon said to portray the empress herself, cut from one block with a soft, almost damp modelling of the body.

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Nara Prefectural Museum of Art

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Grown from one collector's holdings of genre material - not only paintings but the costumes and ornaments in them.

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Nara City Museum of Photography

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For a photographer who spent fifty years on Nara alone; Kurokawa buried most of the building to protect the view.

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Museum Yamato Bunkakan

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Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.

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Neiraku Art Museum

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Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.