Japan's first permanent capital, where more than 1,000 tame sika deer roam the park; buy deer crackers and they will bow to you. Tōdai-ji, one of the largest wooden buildings in the world, houses a 15 m bronze Great Buddha. The Kasuga Taisha shrine has 3,000 stone and bronze lanterns.
Nara is under an hour from Kyoto or Osaka by train, an easy day trip. Watch your bags and maps: the deer will eat paper.
Osaka's lively entertainment street along a canal, famous for giant neon signs, including the Glico running man, and for street food: takoyaki (octop…
The head shrine of Inari, the god of rice and business, famous for its thousands of bright vermilion torii gates, donated by businesses, which form t…
A Buddhist temple on a wooded hillside in eastern Kyoto, famous for its wooden stage, built without nails, jutting out over the valley, with views ov…
The Kyoto residence of the Tokugawa shoguns, who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
The palace where Japan's emperors lived until the capital moved to Tokyo in 1868.
A path through towering green bamboo in western Kyoto, which creaks and rustles in the wind.
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