Nara Travel Guide

Japan · 20 attractions · 4 categories · 2 areas

📊 Nara Crowd Overview — Today

44
Crowd Level · Comfort
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晴 21.5°C
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Total Attractions
14-Day Crowd Trend
Thu · Score 44 · Comfort
Fri · Score 44 · Comfort
Sat · Score 58 · Moderate
Sun · Score 59 · Moderate
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Tue · Score 41 · Comfort
Wed · Score 41 · Comfort
Thu · Score 40 · Comfort
Fri · Score 41 · Comfort
Sat · Score 54 · Moderate
Sun · Score 55 · Moderate
Mon · Score 40 · Comfort
Tue · Score 39 · Comfort
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🏷️ Categories

Museum14 Park6 Nature6 Street1

📍 Popular Areas

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🏆 All 20 Attractions
Nara Park
Nara Park
Park 4.6/5
Deer Feeding in Nara
Deer Feeding in Nara
Other
Narai-juku
Narai-juku
Other 4.8/5
Nara National Museum
Nara National Museum
Museum 4.3/5
Naramachi
Naramachi
Other 4.7/5
NARA KINGYO MUSEUM
NARA KINGYO MUSEUM
Museum 4.3/5
Higashimuki Shopping Street
Higashimuki Shopping Street
Street 4.3/5
Nara Ikimono Museum
Nara Ikimono Museum
Museum 5.0/5
The Museum, Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture
The Museum, Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture
Other 3.0/5
Naramachi Karakuri Toy Museum
Naramachi Karakuri Toy Museum
Museum 3.2/5
Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City
Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City
Museum 3.8/5
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Museum 3.7/5
奈良わんぱくランド はしゃきっズ
奈良わんぱくランド はしゃきっズ
Other 4.0/5
Naramachi Shiryo-kan Museum
Naramachi Shiryo-kan Museum
Museum 3.7/5
Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore
Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore
Museum 3.5/5
Nara Prefectural Office
Nara Prefectural Office
Other 3.9/5
Nara Craft Museum
Nara Craft Museum
Museum 4.0/5
Nara Women's University
Nara Women's University
Other 4.7/5
Nara Christ Church
Nara Christ Church
Other 4.0/5
Sugioka kason Calligraphy Art Museum
Sugioka kason Calligraphy Art Museum
Other 3.0/5

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🗺️ Nara Travel Basics

Nara (奈良市) is an ancient capital city in Nara Prefecture, Kansai region of Japan. Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor Kyoto, Nara is omitted from many a time-pressed tourist's itinerary. However, Nara is home to many important scenic and historical sites, and today preserves its main sights much more attractively than Kyoto within Nara Park…

✈️ Getting There

Nara does not have its own airport; most visitors arrive via either Kansai International Airport (KIX IATA) or Osaka's Itami Airport (ITM IATA), for domestic flights. From Kansai Airport, Airport Limousine buses run to the two Nara train stations every hour (90 min, ¥2100). More frequent service is available by rail: if you have a Japan Rail Pass,…

🚇 Getting Around

Once within Nara Park, you can walk to almost all the other major sites. The conventional round course (from Kintetsu Nara Station to Kōfuku-ji, Nara National Museum, Tōdai-ji, Kasuga Taisha and back to Kintetsu Nara Station) is about 6 km long, a pleasant walk for the typical tourist. You can get a Nara Bus Pass for unlimited travel on Nara…

🛡️ Stay Safe

The deer in Nara Park tend to be friendly and perhaps overly eager to eat shika-senbei biscuits from the hands of tourists - simply possessing some will inevitably attract a small crowd of five or six deer, whose extreme and single-minded interest in these biscuits and accompanying lack of respect for your personal space may well be a bit…

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