Leisure / Hobbies Spots in Nara Area

  • Yagyu Flower Garden
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Narashi Yagyuchou 403
    Yagyu Flower Garden is a botanical garden in Yagyu Town, Nara City. The garden is open from early June through to early July. In the roughly 10,000 square meter site are planted 800,000 irises of 450 different species. The best time to visit is the two weeks after about June 10. The 55 species of hydrangea are also well worth seeing and the best time to see them is around one month after June 10.
  • Sun Village Soni Okukochi Auto Camping Ground
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Uda-gun Sonimura Imai 911-1
  • Tanise Suspension Bridge Autocamp
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Yoshino-gun Totsukawamura Uenoji
  • Asuka Strawberry Picking Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Takaichi-gun Asukamura
    Strawberry picking on a reservation basis in Asuka Village, Takaichi County. Stawberry picking is held at 15 farms in the village from mid-January to late May. Enjoy the local specialty, the Asuka Ruby strawberry, during your 30-minute all-you-can-eat picking experience. Strawberries are grown in raised beds, making them easy to pick while standing.
  • Yamato Folklore Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Yamatokoriyama-shi Yatacho 545
    This park is located in Yatacho, Yamatokoriyama City. Situated in the Yata Hills, 15 traditional Japanese homes dating to the Edo period, including ones designated Important Cultural Properties, have been moved to the park's grounds and restored. The park also possesses an abundance of natural beauty, including an iris garden, natural forest, and seasonally blooming flowers on the grounds. In addition, there is an adjoining folklore museum with exhibits on farming and forestry in the area.
  • Nishinoya Fureai-no-mori Camping Ground
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Yoshino-gun Tenkawamura Wada 231

    バンガロー、キャンプサイトと隣接し、炊事場、トイレが綺麗で、二個ですがコインシャワーあり。 ゴミは生ゴミとそれ以外で分別。 管理人さんも人が良く、薪もしっかり手入れされているので、綺麗に燃えます。 キャンプサイトは区画自体はそんなに広くないので、焚き火する際は周りのテントに飛ばない様注意が必要です。 個人的には奥のサイトがバンガローからも離れており、静かでいいと思います。 地面は細かい砂利で...

  • Kusuri no Yakata Uda City History and Culture Museum
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Udashi Oudakami 2003
    A museum housed inside the former residence of the Hosokawa family, which operated a medicinal wholesaler passed down for generations from 1806. The museum is located in Ouda, Uda City, Nara Prefecture. The building, standing along a former highway route, was built in the late Edo period; the sign for the former company’s medicine brand, Tenju-maru, still stands atop the building, and the structure still looks the same as when the area once flourished as a production location for medicines. Inside, the museum presents historical materials connected to the Hosokawa family and the local area. The building was also once the home of the mother’s side of the family of the founder of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical (which eventually merged with Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical to create Astellas Pharma), and the museum thus also exhibits materials related to Fujisawa Pharmaceutical.

    宇陀道の駅から北に歩いて5分 森野吉野葛本舗の3軒先に 薬の館がある 古めかしい江戸時代を思わせる店構え 大きなうだつに 屋根の中央に唐破風「天寿丸」の看板これを目印に 入ってみると懇切丁寧に係りの方が説明をしていただける。 藤沢薬品(今は、アステラス製薬)の創設者の実家 上り框から帳場や奥の打ち合わせや庭や薬の保管した蔵 江戸時代からの日本の薬メーカへの変遷などみれます。 江戸の家そのままに土間...

  • Takidani Hanashobu Garden
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    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Udashi Murou Takidani 348
    Beautiful flowers compete for attention in the more than 33,000 meter squared Takidani Hanashobu Garden. Here you can enjoy various events such as firefly evenings, blueberry picking and making jam. In the autumn and winter, you can taste some delicious seasonal cuisine such as charcoal grilled matsutake mushroom sukiyaki (Japanese hot pot) and Botan Nabe (wild boar stew). With a restaurant, coffee shop, and shops, visitors can enjoy a full relaxing day here. The bus to Takidani Hanashobu Garden from Sanbonmatsu Station on the Kintetsu Osaka Line takes about five minutes.

    入場料は850円でした。一万坪の園内には600種100万株の勝負が植えられていますが、その他のお花類も充実しています。来訪時はしょうぶのシーズンが終わりかけであった為、あじさいの印象の方が残っています。

  • Onaka Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Yamatotakadashi Onaka
    This park is located a 10-minute walk from Takadashi Station on the Kintetsu Railway. There are play equipment for children such as swings and slides in the park, and families can enjoy picnics in the grass square. There is also Okaden, a floating stage in the pond where you can watch authentic Noh performances. The 1,000 cherry trees adjacent to the levee of the Takada River are particularly famous, and there is a splendid cherry tunnel that runs for 2.5 kilometers from north to south during the cherry blossom season. There are also illuminations, and many people come every year to see the night cherry blossoms. In addition to cherry blossoms, hydrangeas and sasanqua also bloom there, and you can enjoy nature throughout the four seasons.
  • Uda City Haibara Torimiyama Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Uda-shi
    A park in Haibarahagihara, Uda City. The park is located 735-meters above sea level near the top of Mt. Torimi and from the viewing platform you can gaze out across the beauty of the Yamato Basin. The park is awash with nature with Magatama Pond, azaleas and mountain cherry blossoms in the spring, and lovely changing colors in the autumn. There's also a monument dedicated to Emperor Jimmu.
  • Kashihara Sports Park Swimming Pool
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Kashihara-shi Unatecho 323-2
    An outdoor pool located inside the Kashihara Sports Park in Unate Town, Kashihara City that is open during the summer season. They offer a variety of pools including a regulation 50 meter pool usable for athletic meets, a 25m pool, a lazy river, and a children-oriented pool with various playing equipment. They also have three types of water slide including an almost 20-meter tall jumbo slide.
  • Kashihara Manyo Hall
    Travel / Tourism
    Nara Kashihara-shi Osacho 11-5
    This culture hall is located in Osa-cho, Kashihara City. Facilities include the Romantopia Hall, a theater capable of seating around 850 people; as well as a reception hall, conference rooms, and more. The hall is also adjoined by a children's science museum; the Kashihara City Library; and the Horanya restaurant, which serves kamameshi rice dishes and food made with seasonal country vegetables.
  • Miyanomukai Campsite - Kitaimanishi Campsite
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Yoshino-gun Nosegawa Mura Kitaimanishi 426
    A campsite in Kitaimanishi, Nosegawa Village, Yoshino County. The nearby Hotel Nosegawa is only open during the summer season. Looking over the Kawarabi River, they have auto campsites and bungalows as well as day-camp available for only two groups per day.
  • Berry Fields Shimomura
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Gojo-shi Kinoharacho 989-8
    A strawberry farm in Kinohara-cho, Gojo City. They cultivate their strawberries using low levels of pesticide and breeds include Asuka Ruby and Kotoka strawberries. You can enjoy 30-minutes of all-you- can-eat strawberry picking from mid-January to late May. They also sell strawberries and homemade jam and from July to early September offer pesticide free blueberries.
  • Nara Prefectural Tatsuta Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Ikoma-gun Ikarugacho Inabakurumase 2-553
    A park in the south western part of Ikaruga Town, Ikoma County. The park covers 14 hectares and extends along nearly two kilometers of the Tatsuta River, famously mentioned in the Hyakunin Isshu collection of poems. Mt. Miuro in the park has long been a famous location to take in the changing autumn colors and in the spring you can enjoy the cherry blossoms.
  • DMG MORI YAMATO KORIYAMAJO HALL
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Yamatokoriyama-shi Kitakoriyamacho 211-3
    A multipurpose complex located in Kitakoriyama-cho, Yamatokoriyama City. Cultural facilities include a large performance hall seating up to 1,000, reception hall, exhibition hall, and restaurant. There's also a municipal library and martial arts studio which can be used for kendo, judo, and Japanese archery.
  • Tohon
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    Shopping
    Nara Pref. Yamatokoriyamashi Yanagi 4-28
    Tohon is a book store located on the Yanagi Machi Shopping Street in Yamatokoriyama City. The shop handles new titles from smaller independent publishers, second-hand books, and other various items. A selection of recommended books and goods are displayed regardless of genre in the roughly 20 meter square store.

    字の本ばかりです。参考書もありません。 ざっと見渡してから、若い店長(砂川)さんに聞いてみましょうか。 これはどんな本? なんでコミックがないの? どこが面白いの? こんな本はないの? 暇があったら、いろいろと話してくれるかもしれません。もしかしたら別の本屋さんを紹介してくれるかもしれません。 とほんは、~と本 のことだそうです。 こころは and books または books and...

  • Soramitsu
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Narashi Takabatakechou 1445-1
    Soramitsu, run from a large bamboo one-story house, is a select shop which sells stylish traditional household utensils designed with care and thought. The shop holds exhibitions and workshops which bring the everyday world to life. The best way to find the shop is by walking for about 30 minutes along the approach to Kasuga Grand Shrine from the Kintetsu Nara Station on the Kintetsu Nara Line.
  • Sasayaki no Komichi (Whisper Lane)
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Narashi Kasuganochou 160
    This walking path in Kasuganocho, Nara City extends from south of the Ni-no-torii (second gate) gate at Kasuga Taisha Shrine to Takabatake-cho. The path, lined on both sides by old-growth Japanese pieris, is believed to have been walked by many well-known intellectuals. Its official name is Shimo-no-Negimichi (lower path for senior priests of Shinto shrines).
  • Kagirohi-no-Oka Manyo Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Nara Pref. Udashi Oudahasama 25
    The name of this park located in Ouda Hasama, Uda City originates from a poem Kakinomoto no Hitomaro is said to have composed here. A monument carrying the words of this poem stands in the park's grounds. In winter, the park hosts events where visitors can watch the sunrise around camp fires in celebration of the poem.

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With a reputation almost as stellar as that of Kyoto, Nara is a must-visit for those searching for the remains of "traditional Japan." The largely green Nara city holds the majority of the prefecture’s treasures, such as the iconic Todai-ji Temple, in which a 15-meter tall Great Buddha sits, and Nara Park, where deer flock to befriend passersby. While mountains are by no means hard to come by in this area, for hiking with a reward, head to the Kii Mountains’ Yoshino district in spring, when the hillsides put on an impressive display of white and pink cherry blossoms.

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