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  • Kashihara Jingu Shrine
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    Nara Pref. Kashiharashi Kumechou 934
    This shrine is dedicated to Emperor Jimmu and his wife. The shrine was erected by Emperor Meiji in 1890 based on the Nihon Shoki, one of Japan’s oldest history books, which records that the Emperor Jimmu was enthroned at the site. Located at the foot of Mt. Unebi, the hinoki bark thatched, bare-wood main shrine and kagura hall harmonize perfectly with the thick and verdant forest which surround the shrine’s gravel path. The main shrine was a sanctuary in the Kyoto Imperial Palace that was moved here.
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  • Nara Centennial Hall
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    Nara Nara-shi Sanjomiyamaecho 7-1
    This multipurpose hall is located in front of Nara Station in Sanjomiyamae-cho, Nara City. Facilities include a large hall with 1,500 seats, a simultaneous interpretation booth capable of handling four languages at the same time, and moveable audience seats. The hall can be used for concerts, classical theater productions, and other performances, as well as conventions and all manner of purposes. There are adjoining medium- and small-sized halls designed for classical music concerts.

    コンサートなどのホールがあります。設計は磯崎新です。このあたりは、奈良の中止？になった博覧会の名残りですね。

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  • Oyamato-jinja Shrine
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    Nara Pref. Tenrishi Nizumichou 306
    This extremely old shrine had acquired a plot of land second only to Ise Jingu Shrine by the early Heian Period. It enshrines the Shinto deities Yamato no Okuni-mitama, Yachihoko no Okami, and Otoshi no Kami. It was also the guardian shrine of the Battleship Yamato. Because they shared the same name, part of the shrine's tutelary deities was enshrined in the ship through a Shinto ritual known as Bunrei. In 2018, the shrine's Chan-chan Festival was designated as a Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

    This is a shrine with roots that reach back to the early days of the Yamato Nation, making it pretty much on par with other ancient shrines like Omiwa Jinja shrine and Isonokami Jingu shrine...

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  • Obitoke-dera Temple
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    Nara Nara-shi Imaichicho 734
    A temple in Imaichi-cho, Nara City. The temple's origins stem from the Tamamatsu-An monastery, one of the Iwabuchi-senbo (one thousand temple lodgings located in precipitous terrain) founded by Gonso Daitoku, the mentor of Kobo Daishi. The temple's primary object of worship, Jizo the bodhisattva of children and childbirth, has been designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan and draws people praying for easy delivery and conception. It is also known by the name Haraobi (Maternity Belt) Jizo.

    本尊の帯解子安地蔵菩薩は子供を望む夫婦や安産にご利益があることで有名です。全国的にも多数の人が祈願に参拝されます。ここには他にも春日赤童子画像や虚空蔵菩薩坐像などの文化財も公開される時期があります。１１月１２日から１８日の１週間と来年３月１日から８日までの間、特別公開されます。立派な門構えの格式も高い寺院でした。

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  • Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Noboriojichou 10-6
    This is an art museum along Prefectural Route 754 in Noborioji Town, Nara City. They opened in 1973 based on the collection of Japanese-style paintings, ukiyo-e wood block prints and handicrafts of Edo Period donated by Kanpo Yoshikawa, a student of study of folklore history and Japanese-style painter. Since then through donations from all over they have collected around 4,100 pieces of art and crafts from the Kamakura Period to the modern day. They hold special exhibitions related to the history of Nara, and art exhibitions as exchanges with international art museums.

    The National museum was closed for more than 1 month due to exhibit change over. We were sent here instead which had a super show on a well known Japanese painter with an all inclusive one man...

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  • Kashihara City Museum of Insects
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    Nara Kashihara-shi Minamiyamacho 624
    A museum in Minamiyama-cho, Kashihara City. On display are insect and fossil specimens and in the butterfly greenhouse you can observe butterflies from the Yaeyama region of Okinawa. Besides regular themed exhibitions, special events including observation parties are held to help you learn all about insects.

    はっきり言ってかなり一般向けでは無いので、虫が嫌いな方はおススメ出来ません。 標本は少し古いのか色の発色が良く無いものもありましたが、生きてる昆虫に関しては中々良かったです。他に周りたい所があったのです一時間程しか滞在できませんでしたが、虫好きだと結構長くいられます。 生きた珍しい蝶々が沢山見られるのでかなりレアな場所です。個人的にはかなり楽しめましたが、珍しいゴキブリも展示してあるので、やはり...

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  • Takakamo-jinja Shrine
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    Nara Pref. Goseshi Kamogami 1110
    This is a shrine in Kamogami, Gose City. This is the grand main shrine of all the Kamosha Shrines nationwide, and one of the oldest shrines in Japan. The main shrine was rebuilt in the Muromachi period in a Sangensya nagare-zukuri architectural style, is designated as an Important Cultural Property. There are also engravings of Kaikei's inscriptions on the guardian dogs in front of the main shrine. The precinct is home to west and east auxiliary shrines, and many other smaller shrines in the precinct as well.

    パワースポットなので、そう思ったためかそのようなものを感じました。なぜか楠木正成公銅像がありました。大阪付近の出身地だと思ったのですが、どうも楠木正成公は、こちらに度々武運長久の為に訪れたとのことのようです。

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  • Sch Hojinnaragakuen Seminar house shiganaoyakyukyo
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Takabatakechou 1237-2

    入口と出口が違うので脱いだ靴を袋に入れて持ち歩きます。2階の窓に腰掛けて庭をボーッと眺める。茶室の掃き出し窓に腰掛けて中庭をボーッと眺める。サンルームでボーッと座って台所が機能的だわ〜って感心する。ダイニングルームの天井の豪華な事❣️酷暑の最中に訪問したけど、此方は窓から風が吹き抜けて天国の様でした。

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  • Niukawakami Jinja Kamisha Shrine
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    Nara Pref. Yoshinogunkawakamimura Sako 869-1
    This shrine enshrines Takaokami-no-Okami, a Shinto dragon god said to control water and rain. It is famous for the more than 10 sekibo (stone phallic rods) of about 30 cm in length, thought to have been part of a ritual site from the Jomon period (circa 2000 BC), that were excavated at the shrine. The shrine is known to have been a key ritual site from the second half of the Nara period to the first half of the Heian period, making it a highly historically valuable shrine.

    駐車場も便利なところにあり、あまり歩かずに参拝できました。比較的新しい天空の神社という感じでした。ダム建設のため小高いところに移転したとのことでした。ここから見る風景は思ったよりすごくて秘境感がありました。

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  • Shouhaku Art Museum
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Tomigaoka 2-1-4
    The Shouhaku Art Museum is located close to the Obuchi Pond in Tomigaoka 2-chome, Nara City. It was opened in 1994 thanks to works donated by Shoko Uemura and Atsushi Uemura. The collection of Nihonga (Japanese-style paintings) on display spans three generations from Shoen Uemura who was the first woman to receive the Order of Culture, to Shoko Uemura and Atsushi Uemura.

    上村松園はじめ三代の作品を所属する美術館です。上村松園好きは必見ですね。ちょっとアクセス悪いのは残念か。

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  • Niu-Kawakami Jinja Shrine (Middle Shrine)
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    Nara Yoshino-gun Higashi-yoshinomura Omura 968
    A shrine along the Omata-Ogawa Line road in Higashi-yoshino Village, Yoshino County. The principal enshrined deity is Mizuhanome-no-kami, a goddess of irrigation and rain. On the grounds is the thousand-year-old Kanae no Osugi cedar tree as well as the twin Aioi no Sugi cedar tree which embodies the virtue of happy marriage.

    各神社への所要時間は下社－中社が45分、上社-中社も45分程度でした。下社-中社ですと70分から80分かかるのではないでしょうか？。これだけ離れた関連神社を巡るの初めてでした。どれも秘境感あふれる場所にあるので、ドライブがてら巡るのがよろしいのではと思います。

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  • Shoryakuji Temple
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    21 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Bodaisenchou 157
    This temple located between the mountains in the outskirts of Southeast Nara City is blessed with a great natural environment. The temple has long been popular for its autumn foliage, earning it the nickname Nishiki no Sato (the Home of Brocade). During a predetermined period each year, a number of Buddhist images in the temple's collection not normally viewable by the public, including the Bhaisajyaguru, the temple's principal object of worship (a nationally-designated Important Cultural Property), are put on display. The best period to see the autumn foliage is early November to early December.

    2022年11月3日-12月4日の期間《秘仏・薬師如来倚像（台座に腰掛け 足を踏割蓮華に乗せる）》を特別公開しているので 奈良交通ハスを利用し 訪問しました。こちらの鑑賞ポイントは 2ケ所あり その内の1ケ所は[客殿エリア]にある《福寿院（国重要文化財）》で 借景庭園、孔雀明王像と狩野永納筆の襖絵 です。特別公開期間は 襖を開放しているので 鑑賞出来る襖絵は 1枚となっています(但し 特別公開...

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  • Futaiji Temple
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    21 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Hourenchou 517
    This Buddhist temple is said to have been founded by Ariwara no Narihira to enshrine a Buddhist statue he carved himself. The temple’s principal object of worship, a wooden figure of Kannon designated an Important Cultural Property, is also known as the Narihira Kannon. The elegant appearance of the temple is reminiscent of a Heian period noble’s estate, and the grounds are planted with beautifully blooming seasonal flowers such as weeping forsythia, water lilies, and Narihira camellias.

    堂塔は然程、見るべきものもありませんでした。花については季節毎に、椿とか紅葉とか、睡蓮などの見所もありますが・・・。参拝目的はこの寺院が保有している在原業平朝臣の画、業平の邸宅跡が現在の京都御池通のある企業の場所にあったと云うことで、京都との関連等を考慮、わざわざ拝観に来ました。正式名は不退転法輪寺、本尊は業平作と伝承されている聖観音菩薩像。

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  • Imai-machinami Koryu Center Hanairaka
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    31 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Kashiharashi Imaichou 2-3-5
    A museum in Imai Town, Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture which preserves and displays materials relating to the history and culture of the area. The building was originally built as the Takaichi County Education Museum in 1903. Later, the structure was also used as the Imai town hall and today is designated a Cultural Property by Nara Prefecture. The first floor hosts dioramas replicating how Imai once looked, a theater, library, and exhibition space, while the second floor is a lecture hall. The facility also serves as an information center for Imai Town, which retains an old-fashioned townscape dating back to the Edo period.

    華甍(はないらか)と呼びます。元は今井町の町役場だった場所で、現在は今井町の資料館や観光案内所の役割を果たしています。今井町の街並みが分かるジオラマや歴史年表が話題ですが、私は江戸時代の建物に興味があるので、虫籠窓を集めた写真がとても印象に残っています。今井町の街並みを見る前にこちらで是非、事前勉強をしていきましょう！

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  • Koshin-do
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Nishinoshinyachou
    You’ll find this small hall in the center of Naramachi with a standing statue of Shomen (blue-faced guardian deity), known as Koshin, enshrined. The red monkeys suspended from the eaves of houses in Naramachi are modeled after the servants of Koshin and are believed to act as sacrificial charms that guard against natural disasters and sickness.

    奈良町を歩いていると、家の軒先に吊るしてある、庚申さん。こちらのお堂に庚申さんが祀られています。こちらでお参りし、隣のお店で庚申さんのストラップを購入しました。

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  • Daijo-in Temple Garden Heritage Center
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    29 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Takabatakechou 1083-1
    This Heritage Center is a museum in the Garden of the Former Daijo-in Temple, which is located along National Route 169 in Takabatake-cho in the city of Nara. It contains materials connected with Daijo-in Temple, which was founded in 1087 and abandoned during the anti-Buddhist movement in the early Meiji Period (the middle of the nineteenth century). Open to the public free of charge, this museum displays a reconstructed model of what the temple looked like. A teahouse and conference rooms are available to rent.

    奈良ホテルに宿泊し、無料チケットを頂いたので、朝散歩に出かけました。徒歩５分でホテルの坂道を下った所に着きます。冬なので、茶色の芝生が広がり、白梅が咲いていました。お掃除の方に「お花がないのでね。あちらの建物にどうぞ。」と言われそちらへ。写真展をやっており、茶室丸窓からも一幅の絵画のような赤い太鼓橋と、池とお庭が見えました。奈良観光の参考になるパンフレットもいくつか置いてありました。

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  • Kikoji Temple
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    27 Reviews
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    Nara Nara-shi Sugaharacho 508

    山門前に設置されている縁起からですが奈良時代の初期、721年に行基上人によって創建されました。その後荒廃しましたが、室町時代に再興、現在に至ります。

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  • Asukani-imasu Shrine
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    27 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Takaichigunasukamura Asuka 708
    The age of this shrine makes visitors feel the weight of the eternity. It was relocated to its present location after receiving divine advice in the year 829. There are many Yin-Yang stones placed within the shrine, and the resident kami is believed to aid fertility. Every year, on the first Sunday in February, the famous Onda Festival is held here.

    飛鳥寺の少し東、小高い丘の上にある由緒のある神社。日本書紀や万葉集にも記載があるそうだが、創建については定かではないという。家内安全、商売繁盛から安産や縁結びのご利益もあるらしい。

  • Matsuo-dera Temple
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    26 Reviews
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    Nara Pref. Yamatokoriyamashi Yamadachou 683 Matsuozan
    This principal object of worship of this temple, Japan's oldest yakuyoke reijo (spiritual place for warding off evil and misfortune) is the Senju Sengan Kannon Bosatsu, which has one thousand hands and one thousand eyes. During holidays such as the annual hatsumode (the first shrine visit of New Year), the Yakuyoke Festival held every February to March, and every hatsuuma (the first horse day in any lunar month), numerous people visit the temple from all across Japan for its Matsuno Osan Mairi, a prayer to ward off evil and misfortune.

    独特の参拝ルールと云うか、高いが一度、厄除の祈願をしてもらえると以降は１年間、不可能だが毎日参拝しても１日１回に限り無料で祈願してもらえるパスが頂ける、つまり、３６５回で１０，０００円と云うことになるのかな？それよりもここの特徴は「年に１日間限り」しか公開されない秘仏、厄除観音像、年に１回と云われると何故か、みんな見に来る、昨年は１１月３日に実施された。秘仏本尊の厄除観音さんです。それにしても凄い...

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  • Sugawara Tenmangu Shrine
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    Nara Pref. Narashi Sugaharachou 518
    This is the country’s oldest Tenmangu shrine, which is said to be in the region that is the origin of the Sugawara clan and the birthplace of Sugawara no Michizane. It is dedicated to the deities Amenohohi, Nominosukune, and Sugawara no Michizane. About 100 meters northeast of the shrine is said to be the site of the pond where Michizane was born. Many events associated with Sugawara no Michizane are held here. For example, every year from early February until early March, about 200 plum bonsai trees consisting of about 130 species are put on display in the “plum bonsai exhibition,” and for the Vernal Equinox, a “writing brush festival” is held.

    近鉄西大寺駅からレンタル自転車にて訪問、約４-５分程の距離です。説明書からですが菅原道真公の生誕の地だそうです。ただ、いろいろと天満社を巡ると菅公の生誕地を由来とする神社はあちこちに有りますね。住宅街に在る神社です。

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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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