Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Nara, Japan

Akishino-dera (秋篠寺) is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan. Founded in the eighth century, its Kamakura-period Hondō is a National Treasure.

Wikipedia: Akishino-dera (EN)

Sakiryozan Kofun is an ancient burial mound located in Sanryo Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The shape is an anterior-posterior mound. One of the burial mounds that make up the Saki Shield Row Tombs.

Wikipedia: 佐紀陵山古墳 (JA)

The Saki Ishizukayama Tomb is an ancient burial mound located in front of the Imperial Tomb in the town of Yamaryo, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The shape is an anterior-posterior mound. One of the burial mounds that make up the Saki Shield Row Tombs.

Wikipedia: 佐紀石塚山古墳 (JA)

The Saki Gourd Mountain Tomb is a front-posterior mound of the first half of the mid-Kofun period located in Sakiemondo, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Saki Shield Row Tombs and is often referred to simply as the Gourd Mountain Tomb, but this name is used here to distinguish it from the Gourd Mountain Tombs found throughout the country. This burial mound has been designated as a national historic site.

Wikipedia: 佐紀瓢箪山古墳 (JA)

Empress Jingū was a legendary Japanese empress who ruled as a regent following her husband's death in 200 AD. Both the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki record events that took place during Jingū's alleged lifetime. Legends say that after seeking revenge on the people who murdered her husband, she then turned her attention to a "promised land". Jingū is thus considered to be a controversial monarch by historians in terms of her alleged invasion of the Korean Peninsula. This was in turn possibly used as justification for imperial expansion during the Meiji period. The records state that Jingū gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Homutawake three years after he was conceived by her late husband.

Wikipedia: Gosashi tomb (EN)