Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Nara, Japan

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 114 m
Descend 111 m

Explore Nara in Japan with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in NaraIndividual Sights in Nara

Sight 1: Futaiji

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Futai-ji (不退寺), also known as Narihira-dera (業平寺), is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan.

Wikipedia: Futai-ji (EN)

540 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Uwanabe Kofun

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Uwanabe Kofun

Uwanabe Kofun is a circular mound located in Hokaji-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the burial mounds that make up the Saki Shield Row Kofun Group (Uwanabe Kofun Group), and is located at the easternmost point of the Kofun Group and is the largest giant burial mound.

Wikipedia: ウワナベ古墳 (JA)

886 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 3: Konabe Kofun

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Konabe Kofun is an ancient burial mound located in Hokaji-cho, 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: コナベ古墳 (JA)

758 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 4: 春日神社

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Kasuga-jinja Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Hokkeji-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Originally, Amenokoyane no mikoto was enshrined as a chinju-sha (shrine dedicated to the deities) of Kairyuo-ji Temple, but the left and right two shrines were enshrined together in the year of Kanen and were revered as ujigami (a guardian god). He was worshipped as a ujigami (guardian deity) of Hokkeji-cho by calling the Inatari-jinja Shrine Nishinomiya and the Higashi no Miya Shrine.

Wikipedia: 春日神社 (奈良市法華寺町) (JA)

37 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Kairyuo-ji Temple

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Kairyūōji Temple is a temple of the Shingon Ritsu sect located in Hokaji Kitamachi, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. There is no mountain number. The honzon is the eleven-sided Kannon. It was built in the northeast corner of the Empress Dowager Palace (the ruins of the residence of Fujiwara Fubi, etc.), so it has another name for Sumidera.

Wikipedia: 海龍王寺 (JA)

303 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Hokke-ji Temple

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Hokke-ji Temple hiro / CC BY-SA 3.0

Hokke-ji , is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara, Japan.

Wikipedia: Hokke-ji (EN), Website

1217 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: Nara Palace Historical Park

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Heijo Palace is the inner part of Heijo Kyoto. In December 1998 (Heisei 10), it was registered as a World Heritage Site along with Todaiji Temple as a "cultural property of the ancient capital of Nara" (the first archaeological site in Japan).

Wikipedia: 平城宮跡歴史公園 (JA)

792 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 8: Tomb of Emperor Heijo

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Ichiiwa Kofun is an ancient burial mound located in Tsukamoto, Saki-cho, 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: 市庭古墳 (JA)

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Saki Shrine

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755 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: 佐紀陵山古墳

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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)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: 佐紀石塚山古墳

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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)

1608 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 12: 西大寺

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Saidai-ji (西大寺) or the "Great Western Temple" is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The temple was first established in AD 765 as a counterpart to Tōdai-ji and it is the main temple of the Shingon Risshu (真言律宗) sect of Buddhism after the sect's founder, Eison (叡尊), took over administration in 1238. It has undergone several reconstruction efforts since then during the succeeding centuries.

Wikipedia: Saidai-ji (EN)

1005 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 13: 菅原天満宮

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菅原天満宮

Sugawara Tenmangu is a shrine located in Sugawara-cho, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It is a Shikiuchi company, and the former company name is Gosha. It is also called "Sugawara Shrine (Sugawara Jinja / Sugahara Jinja)". It is said to be the oldest Tenmangu shrine in Japan. It is known as a shrine related to the ancient clans of the Doshi and Sugawara clans.

Wikipedia: 菅原天満宮 (奈良市) (JA)

260 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Kiko-ji temple

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Kikō-ji (喜光寺) is a Buddhist temple in Nara, Japan. Founded in the eighth century, its Muromachi-period Hondō and the Heian-period statue of Amida Nyorai enshrined within are Important Cultural Properties.

Wikipedia: Kikō-ji (EN), Website

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