Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Nara, Japan

Fukuin is a temple of the Shingon Ritsu sect located in Takahata-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Kasuga. The honzon is the Fuku 羂羂索Kannon. It is known as a rim-cutting temple because of its history of being a "kakekomi temple" in the past.

Wikipedia: 不空院 (JA)

Shiga Naoya's former residence is a literary museum located in Takahata-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The former residence of the novelist Naoya Shiga of the Shirakaba school. It is also called Takahata Salon. It is open to the public and is also used as a seminar house for Nara Gakuen.

Wikipedia: 志賀直哉旧居 (奈良市高畑) (JA)

Kibizuka Kofun is a circular mound or anterior posterior mound located on the campus of Nara University of Education in Takahata-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is said to be the tomb of Kibi Mabi.

Wikipedia: 吉備塚古墳 (JA)

Hojuji Temple is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect in Nara City. Currently, Nembutsu lectures and Buddhist women's associations are organized by Dan laity.

Wikipedia: 宝珠寺 (奈良市) (JA)

The Emperor Takamichi is a shrine located in Nishikiji -cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The old company is a village shrine, a shrine charging company.

Wikipedia: 崇道天皇社 (JA)

Inoue Shrine is a shrine located in Inoue Town, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It sits next to the west of the Inoue Town Hall.

Wikipedia: 井上神社 (JA)

Kyobeto Jizoin is a temple located in Nara City, Nara Prefecture.

Wikipedia: 京終地蔵院 (JA)

Tokuyuji Temple is a temple of the Harmony Nembutsu sect located at 25 Narukawa-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Toyosei.

Wikipedia: 徳融寺 (奈良市) (JA)

Shotoin is a temple of the Shingon Ritsu sect located in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The main Buddha is the Bodhisattva of the Void. It was originally part of the temple of Yuanxing Temple.

Wikipedia: 小塔院 (JA)

Gangō-ji (元興寺) is an ancient Buddhist temple, that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Nara, Japan.

Wikipedia: Gangō-ji (EN)

Goryōjinja is a shrine located in Yakushido-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The former company name is Murasha. It is also called Nanto Gorei Shrine and Kibi Spirit.

Wikipedia: 御霊神社 (奈良市) (JA)

Jurinin is a temple of the Shingon sect Daigo school in Juwan -in -cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. The mountain name is Mt. Ameho. The principal is a stone -built Jizo Bodhisattva. It is located in a corner of Nara -cho, where the cityscape of the Edo and Meiji period remains.

Wikipedia: 十輪院 (JA)

Tenjinsha is a shrine located in Takahata, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is also called Naramachi Tenjinja Shrine. It is a heavenly shrine in Kitatenma, and the precincts are about 1,000 square meters.

Wikipedia: 天神社 (奈良市高畑町) (JA)

Nara National Museum Buddhist Art Materials Research Center is a facility managed by the Nara National Museum established in 1980 (Showa 55) for the purpose of research, storage, and publication of Buddhist art materials and related materials.

Wikipedia: 奈良国立博物館仏教美術資料研究センター (JA)

The Nara National Museum is one of the pre-eminent national art museums in Japan.

Wikipedia: Nara National Museum (EN)

The Manyo Botanical Garden , also known as the Kasuga Taisha Garden, is a botanical garden located next to the Kasuga Shrine at 160 Kasugano-cho, Nara, Nara, Japan.

Wikipedia: Manyo Botanical Garden, Nara (EN)

Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Nara, Nara-shi, Kasugano Town, Kasugano Town, にある Shrine. Shikinai Shrine (Meijin Taisha Shrine), Twenty-two Shrine (Kamishichisha) の一社. 旧社格は官幣大社で、現在は神神本庁の別表神神。 Formerly known as "Kasukasha", Shinmoji "下がり藤".

Wikipedia: 春日大社 (JA), Website

Mt. Kasuga is the common name of Hanayama, which is 497 meters above sea level on the east side of Kasuga Taisha Shrine in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, or Mt. Mikasa, which is 283 meters above sea level to the west. In some cases, Mt. Mika is distinguished as "(Kasuga) Maeyama" and Hanayama is distinguished as "(Kasuga) Okuyama". It is also used as a general term for mountain ranges such as Ryoyama and Mt. Yoshiyama (518m).

Wikipedia: 春日山 (奈良県) (JA)

Nara Park is a public park located in the city of Nara, Japan, at the foot of Mount Wakakusa. Established in 1880, it is one of the oldest parks in Japan. Administratively, the park is under the control of Nara Prefecture. The park is one of the "Places of Scenic Beauty" designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Over 1,200 wild sika deer freely roaming around in the park are also under designation of MEXT, classified as natural treasure. While the official size of the park is about 502 hectares, the area including the grounds of Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Kasuga Grand Shrine and Nara National Museum, which are either on the edge or surrounded by Nara Park, is as large as 660 hectares.

Wikipedia: Nara Park (EN)