Charm of Nara,Japan

Kashihara City- A miracle city, Imai-cho

Imai-cho is the last "Japanese town" left in Japan.There are 500 traditional townhouse miraculously remaining, and still thousand people live in. There are few tourists, and when walking in a town Feeling like where samurai will come out,you'll feel like you returned to the Middle Ages.

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Totsukawa Village- Various fun in the biggest village in Japan

Totsukawa village is located at the southernmost tip of Nara prefecture. It is a village blessed with forest and water resources in contact with Wakayama prefecture in the west and Mie prefecture in the east.Suspension bridges crossing beautiful mountain stream, and a number of magnificent waterfalls, hot springs which heals people,Kindness of people living in village...Totsukawa village has vast nature and a deep history, and it is colored with various attractions.

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Higashi-Yoshino Village- A village with Japanese history and myths

The ancient capital city of Japan "Nara".Among them, Higashi-Yoshino village is located in the east part of Yoshino which has Japanese history and myths .It is a natural rich mountain village surrounded by Yoshino cedar of Japan's three great beautiful forests, nurtured by the Takamigawa River and the Shigogawa River, the rich flow of the Yoshinogawa River. Extinct japanese wolf which people afraid as a vertex of food chain, was living to the end there, it is also the place where the "Tenchu Gumi" finished too early as a pioneering for the Meiji Restoration that triggered the growth of Japan as one of the world's leading powers. However, now under the creative village concept, that young people move to and settled villages is increasing.

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Gojo City- Gojo Shin-machi

Gojo City is located in the Midwest part of Nara Prefecture, it is a small city adjacent to Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture. In the Edo period, the Gojo Shin-machi area has prospered. The townscape that existed in the four centuries from the beginning of the Edo Period until the early Showa era was still left and quietly carved the time.

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Nara City- A place combining nature and history

In Nara City, the capital was transferred to this place from "Fujiwara Kyo" in 710, prospered as the capital for more than 70 years, the flowers of Tianpyeong culture bloomed.
In Nara City there is a World Cultural Heritage "Ancient Nara's Cultural Property" consisting of 8 assets of Todaiji Temple, Kofukuji Temple, Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Gensoji Temple, Yakushiji Temple, Toshodaiji Temple, Heijo Palace Market, and Kasugayama Primitive Forest, there are many other shrines and temples, nature, historical sites, national treasures, cultural properties.
Please come and visit "Nara" where has the history and the nature.

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Tenri City- The city where people live life

Tenri city is located in the northern part of Nara Prefecture, the east and west are the major parts of transportation, including Nishi-Meihan Expressway and Meihan national highway, national highway No. 24, national highway No. 169, and Kei-Nawa Expressway. Access to Osaka · Kyoto etc. is also convenient from Tenri Station where the Kintetsu Tenri Line · JR Manyo Mahoroba Line runs and both lines cross. The western part of the city is a livable area included in the Nara Basin, In the eastern mountainous areas, where people live together while being surrounded by rich greenery, agriculture, sports, music and cultural activities are carried out on a daily basis.

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Charm of places

Tenri City- Road around the mountain

From the foot of Mt.Miwa to the north so as to sew the mountain foot, it is the road which continues to the foot of Mt.Kasuga, It is said to be the oldest main road in Japan that appears in old Japanese history. It is also a hiking cource, and on the roadside it is a way to enjoy while feeling the ancient romance of the seasons such as cherry blossoms and persimmon fields as well as scattered monuments and ancient tombs.

Nara City- Nara Park

Nobori-oji-cho/Takabatake-cho/Kasugano-cho/Zoushi-cho, Nara city

About 1,200 deer inhabits in Nara Park. Todaiji Temple, Kofukuji Temple, Kasuga Taisha shrine they are wrapped in a valuable historical cultural heritage , and natural beauty surrounding these harmonize. Nara Park, where people and wildlife coexist, is a historic park that is a symbol of ancient capital Nara.

Gojo City- Gojo Shin-machi

Gojo City is located in the Midwest part of Nara Prefecture, it is a small city adjacent to Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture. In the Edo period, the Gojo Shin-machi area has prospered. The townscape that existed in the four centuries from the beginning of the Edo Period until the early Showa era was still left and quietly carved the time.

Higashi-Yoshino Village- Nana Taki Ya Tsubo

Oaza Omata,Higashi-Yoshino Village,Yoshino-gun,Nara pref.

It is a Waterfall selected as "100 famous water selection of Heisei" by the Ministry of the Environment in 2008. It is a collective term of the seven waterfalls flows to the "Omatagawa river". "Mt.Isetsujiyama" of mountain range of Daiko is the source of water.It is rich water, It is shaping a beautiful landscape. The area surrounded by artificial forest of Yoshino cedar is one of Japan's three largest artificial beauty forests, Many animals such as capricornis crispus of country's natural monument is living.

Totsukawa Village- Autumn leaves

Oaza Sugise,Totsukawa Village

It is a autumn leaves picture of the Kannogawa river where we took "INORI" in.

Kashihara City- A miracle city, Imai-cho

Imai-cho is the last "Japanese town" left in Japan.There are 500 traditional townhouse miraculously remaining, and still thousand people live in. There are few tourists, and when walking in a town Feeling like where samurai will come out,you'll feel like you returned to the Middle Ages.

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