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Landscaped, public park with ancient temples & the Nara National Museum of art, plus tame deer.
Buddhist temple originally built in the mid-700s, with one of Japan's largest bronze Buddha statues.
Complex of Buddhist temple halls & pagodas, plus an on-site museum showcasing national treasures.
Originally built in 680, this Buddhist landmark was once one of the Seven Great Temples in Nara.
Reconstruction of the 8th-century imperial palace that once stood on this site.
Founded in 1889, this national art museum features an extensive collection of Japanese Buddhist art.
Buddhist temple complex known for its 8th-century Golden Hall, acknowledged as a national treasure.
Massive wooden temple gate completed in 1203, with a double-tier roof & 2 guardian statues.
Hilltop hall, part of Tōdai-ji Buddhist temple, with sweeping views of Nara from its balcony.
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the second biggest prefectural city, third-most populous city proper in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With an estimated population of 2,816,247 as of October 1, 2025 and a population density of about 12,505 people per square kilometer, it is the largest component of the Keihanshin metropolitan area, the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants.
Kyoto, officially Kyoto City , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.
Nagoya is the capital and most populous city of Aichi Prefecture in Japan. It is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city in Japan, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is itself the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan. Nagoya is located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, and its seaport is the largest in Japan.
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