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The Great Buddha Hall at Todai-ji filling the frame, spring foliage at the left and a line of visitors along its baseDense rows of moss-covered stone lanterns with one sika deer looking out between them, in NaraA narrow lane with an old shopfront under a sign reading Naramachi Shiryokan, red cloth charms hung at its doorA deer grazing under a red and orange autumn tree on an open lawn, a few distant people

Nara

Nara: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Nara Park, Kofuku-ji, Todai-ji, Kasuga Taisha, the Nara National Museum and Isuien sit next to each other, 5 to 20 minutes on foot from Kintetsu Nara Station. Naramachi is within walking distance of both Nara stations. Horyu-ji is the one real day trip: 13 minutes by JR from JR Nara Station, then 15 minutes on foot or 5 by bus.

Nara's local dishes are kakinoha-zushi, narazuke, cha-gayu, Miwa somen and mochi. For where to stay, pick the station first: Kintetsu Nara, JR Nara, Naramachi or the Nara Park side.

Nara: food, things to do, where to stay