Nara

Population 352,377 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

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Visas and entry What your passport needs for Japan
Daylight 9 h 51 in Dec, dark by 16:47 · 14 h 28 in Jun
  1. January: 10 h 04 of daylight
  2. February: 10 h 56 of daylight
  3. March: 11 h 55 of daylight
  4. April: 13 h 02 of daylight
  5. May: 13 h 57 of daylight
  6. June: 14 h 28 of daylight
  7. July: 14 h 16 of daylight
  8. August: 13 h 29 of daylight
  9. September: 12 h 26 of daylight
  10. October: 11 h 22 of daylight
  11. November: 10 h 23 of daylight
  12. December: 9 h 51 of daylight
Tourist office · 1.8 km Tourist Information Office

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Mount Wakakusa Fire Festival

    January

    Great fireworks and the dry grass on the slopes of this mountain is set on fire by two temples. The size of the burn depends on how dry the grass is

  2. Nara Tōka-e

    August

    An annual light festival. 10,000 candles illuminate the area around Nara Park and major temples

2 events here have no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Nara); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • 椿井市場

    No hours mapped

    2.4 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 11 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Kintetsu Nara 2.6 km, Kyōbate 3.0 km, Kujo 3.0 km, Narayama 3.2 km, Ayameike 3.9 km, Koriyama 4.0 km, Kintetsu-Koriyama 4.4 km, Takanohara 4.6 km, Gakuemmae 4.7 km, Obitoke 5.0 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.