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奈良県 · Tourism

Heijokyu

奈良市奈良

The Suzakumon and the Daigokuden have been rebuilt. The frame of the old capital survives as open ground.

奈良県 · Tourism

Ishibutai

明日香村中和

Boulders weighing 2,300 tonnes in all. Held to be the tomb of Soga no Umako.

奈良県 · Tourism

Mantoro

奈良市奈良

About 3,000 lanterns are lit, twice a year at Setsubun and at Chugen.

奈良県 · Tourism

Omizutori

奈良市奈良

It has run without a break for more than 1,270 years. To be showered with sparks from the great torches is said to drive off misfortune.

奈良県 · Tourism

Nara Park

奈良市奈良

Twelve hundred wild deer. Held to be messengers of the Kasuga deity, they have long been protected.

奈良県 · Tourism

Mt. Yoshino

吉野町吉野

Thirty thousand shiroyama cherry trees. Shugendo practitioners planted them, generation after generation, as sacred trees.

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.

奈良県 · Tourism

Naramachi

奈良市奈良

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

奈良県 · Tourism

Wakakusa Yamayaki

奈良市奈良

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

奈良県 · Tourism

Omizutori

奈良市奈良

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

奈良県 · Tourism

Tsukigase Plum Grove

奈良市奈良

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

奈良県 · Tourism

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.

奈良県 · Tourism

Nara National Museum

奈良市奈良

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

和歌山県 · Tourism

Hashiguiiwa

串本町紀南

A line of rocks said to be what remains of Kobo Daishi's attempt to build a bridge in one night.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Saki no Yu

白浜町紀南

Muro no Yu, one of the three oldest springs of Japan. It is sung of in the Manyoshu.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Kumano Kodo

田辺市ほか紀中

With the Camino de Santiago, one of only two pilgrimage roads in the world inscribed as World Heritage.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Shirahama

白浜町紀南

White sand, and Engetsuto, the island the setting sun passes through.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Adventure World

白浜町紀南

It has bred more giant pandas than anywhere else in Japan.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Okunoin Path

高野町高野

Two kilometres of cedars, with over 200,000 gravestones. Sengoku commanders lie there without regard to which side they fought on.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Wakayama-jo

和歌山市紀北

The seat of the Kishu Tokugawa, one of the three branch houses. The keep is a reconstruction.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Nanko Ume

みなべ町紀中

Sixty percent of Japan's plums. Whole slopes turn white with blossom.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Tomogashima

和歌山市紀北

Meiji-era gun batteries lie buried in the forest. It is called the Laputa island.

和歌山県 · Tourism

Kuroshio Market

和歌山市紀北

A tuna-cutting show three times a day.