One day in Nara-shi, Japan

A day through Nara-shi’s best-known sights that lie close together: Kasuga-taisha, Nara Park, Tōdai-ji Temple, Nara National Museum, Kōfuku-ji Temple and Gangō-ji Temple. 6 stops, about 2.9 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Kasuga-taishaTemple or shrine · On the map
  2. Nara ParkGarden · 0.6 km on from Kasuga-taisha · On the map
  3. Tōdai-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 0.5 km on from Nara Park · On the map
  4. Nara National MuseumMuseum · 0.7 km on from Tōdai-ji Temple · On the map
  5. Kōfuku-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 0.5 km on from Nara National Museum · On the map
  6. Gangō-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 0.6 km on from Kōfuku-ji Temple · On the map

6 stops, about 2.9 km between them in straight lines.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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