Maybe you know Sento-kun, maybe you don’t. He is Nara‘s official mascot and has been since 2010 as part of the celebrations for the city’s 1,300 anniversary. This mascot is a bit controversial. Usually, Japanese mascots are all about cuteness, and that’s the thing; many people find this […]
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The Heijō Palace in Nara is 1,300 years old… … unless it’s only three years old. It depends on how you see the whole thing. Here are more details about Heijō-kyō, if you don’t know what this is about.
Unless I’m wrong, those houses, right next to Hōryū-ji in Nara are where the priests live. But I could be wrong.
I went to Kōfuku-ji in Nara, briefly during the Spring of 2010, and I can’t wait to return there. In the meantime three pictures of the place : The Gojū-no-tō, Kōfuku-ji’s five-story pagoda is 50 meters high, and probably one of the highest pagodas in Japan. It was destroyed (by […]
I didn’t visit the Kasuga-Taisha when I went to Nara for some reason. But I took a few pictures outside and around: Next time I will hopefully visit it.
I visited Hōryū-ji about two years, under heavy rain. Yet, it remains one of the strongest impressions I’ve experienced among my various visits in Japan. Strangely, I have the feeling that Hōryū-ji is not that famous outside of Japan, or at least much less famous than many other temples. It […]
To tell you about Heijō-kyō, I need to tell you a thing or two about Nara‘s history in case you don’t already know it. In the year 710, the Empress Gemmei decided to move the capital city to the town of Heijō-kyō. At the time, moving capital cities was common […]