Best Instagrammable Spots In Nara
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A Head Temple Hase-dera in Nara Prefecture. It's famous for a flower temple, but what we see first of all after the gate, is this beautiful and long steps. On a New Year's Eve, they will hold a memorial ceremony 'Mandoue' and the whole precinct will wrapped in warm lights.
Name
Hase-dera Temple
Address
731-1 Hase, Sakurai-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min walk from Kintetsu Hasedera Station. By car, 50 min from Nara city, 75 min from Osaka, or 110 min from Kyoto city. Toll parking area is available.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
Umami Kyuryo Park is a large prefectural park with ancient tombs and rich nature. There're about 500 thousand tulips and spring flowers in the park! You can enjoy various seasonal flowers whenever you visit the park.◎Tulip Fair in 2018, 4/7-4/15, 10:00-17:00. Entrance fee is free. You can enjoy seeing flowers anytime, but some events and food trucks are only during the fair.
Name
Umami Kyuryo Park
Address
2202 Samita Kawai-cho, Kitakatsuragi-gun, NaraGoogle Map
Hours
8:00-18:00
Fee
Adult 0 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
By car, 15 min from Horyuji IC. Or 2 min walk from Ikebe Station.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Han'nya-ji Temple is well known as a cosmos temple. From September to November, there're 150 thousand and 30 kinds of cosmos are in bloom. It's very photogenic to take pictures of a temple and 13 storied stone pagoda over the cosmos!◎Parking lot is free during weekdays. On holidays, one car for 1 hour will be free, but more than that, you need 500yen.
Name
Han'nya-ji Temple
Address
221 Han'nyaji-cho, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
10 min by bus from Nara Station to Hannyaji, then 3 min walk. By car, 60 min from Osaka, 60 min from Kyoto city. Toll parking area is available.
Parking
Toll parking area is available
The weeping cherry blossom (Shidare Zakura) can be seen in only this season. In fact, the new trees are planted every year and there're about 1200 weeping cherry blossom trees here.
Name
Takami-no Sato
Address
298-1 Sugitani Higashi Yoshino-mura, Yoshino-gun, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
30 min by car, from Haibara Station
Parking
Free parking area is available
It's my second time to visit here. I want to come again in summer, because I know only its winter season. There were only one other group except for us on the weekday we visited.
Name
Soni Kogen Highlands
Address
Taroji Soni-mura, Uda-gun, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
90 min by car from Nara Station
Parking
Parking area is available
It's since 2003. There're over 2500 wind bells hung in the precinct, and the orchestra of cool sounds when the wind blow. You can forget the heat of summer while you eating shaved-ice and listening to such tones.◎Wind Bells are displayed to the end of August.
Name
Ofusa Kannon Temple
Address
6-22 Ousa-cho, Kashihara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
Hours
9:00-16:00
Fee
Adult 300 yen、Child 300 yen
How to get there
8 min by bus from Yamatoyagi Station to Ousa, then 5 min walk. 40 min by car from Nara city.
Parking
Free parking area is available
Goldfish Museum at a shopping moll Mina-ra in Nara Prefecture. We can feel relaxed with many kinds of goldfish exhibited beautifully.
Name
Goldfish Museum
Address
Mina-ra, 1-3-1 Nijo Oji Minami, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
Hours
10:00-19:45
Fee
Adult 1000 yen、Child 0 yen
How to get there
10 min walk from Shin Omiya Station. 10 min by car or taxi from Nara Station. Free shuttle bus is available from JR Nara Station.
There's a line of cherry blossom trees as long as 5 kilometers along the Saho River. We can see various scene at every spot. The first pic is around Sawai Hospital, and the second is around Nara Library & Information Center.
Name
Saho River's Cherry Blossom Trees
Address
Houren-cho, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min walk from Nara Station
Summer festival held at a vast site of Heijo Palace. This summer, the lighting event 'TOUKAE' was held at night, the sky changing its color every moment and the fantastic candle lights are wonderful. Look forward to this event in autumn, too!◎It's held in spring and autumn every year, but the dates changes each year. You need to confirm in HP. Free pickup bus is available between JR Nara Station and Kintetsu Saidai-ji Station,
Name
Heijo Palace
Address
30 Nobori Oji-cho, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by bus from JR Nara Station West Exit. By car, 5 min from Yamato Saidaiji Station, 40 min from Osaka city, 60 min from Kyoto city.
Parking
Free parking area is available
About 400 thousand pale purple flowers are spreading all over the paddy field, and its scenery is very beautiful. The best season to see these water hyacinth is from the late August to the late September!
Name
Motoyakushi-ji Temple Site
Address
Kidono-cho, Kashihara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
9 min walk from Unebigoryo-mae Station. By car, 40 min from Nara city.
Parking
Parking area is available
An elementary school site in Uda city of Kyoto Prefecture. It leaves the classrooms and school building as they are, and you can enjoy even school lunch here. The wooden building where the sunlight comes is very suitable for taking portrait pictures.
Name
Old Uda Elementary School Site
Address
135-2 Utanofuruichiba, Uda-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by bus from Kintetsu Haibara Station to Furuichiba Mikumari Shrine, then 3 min walk. 60 min by car from Nara city. Free parking area is available.
Parking
Free parking area is available
More than 1000 wild deer live in the huge park with lush greenery, and we can meet them freely. Some stands sell Shika Senbei (deer's cracker), and you can feed them, but please beware of so many deer getting together around you!
Name
Nara Park
Address
469 Zoshi-cho, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
Tel
0742-27-8036
How to get there
On foot: 5 min from Kintetsu Nara Station, 20 min from JR Nara Station. By bus: 2 min from Kintetsu Nara Station, or 9 min from JR Nara Station to Nara Park. By car: 45 min from Osaka, 60 min from Kyoto.
Parking
Nearby toll parking area is available
Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture is a capital of goldfish breeding. Then, K Coffee, a cafe renovated from a gas station, has a water tank made from a telephone box, and the goldfish are swimming inside it. What a daring scene!
Name
K COFFEE
Address
4-46 Yanagi-machi, Yamatokoriyama-shi, NaraGoogle Map
Hours
10:00-17:00
Closed
Thu
How to get there
Impressive atmosphere of brick building. It was built more than 100 years ago, and it's the only one existing among 'five great prisons in Meiji Period'. It was used actually up to a few months ago, and will leave the old and good parts to be used for a historical hall from now on.◎Rebuilt for quake-proof engineering, it will become a hotel and historical hall around 2020. You can't enter the building, but only the gate and wall are impressive!
Name
Nara Prison
Address
18 Han'nyaji-cho, Nara-shi, NaraGoogle Map
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
