Nijō, on the border between Nara and Osaka, and gave it its present name. During the Asuka period (593–710), the Kondō (Golden Hall), with its seated image of Miroku (Maitreya), the Buddha of ...

With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

Overnight, it seemed, Japan was open to the world and, as the curtain fell on its medieval past, the country entered a period of transformational change. “It looks like it will die,” Nishibori ...

Naramachi offers a glimpse into the long history of the city, from old historic sites of the Nara Period to traditional wooden townhouses ... and Kissho Tennyo, a female Buddha of good fortune.

A lot of the most popular shrines and temples are actually open 24/7, so the fact that you can technically go whenever you ...

The Koryu doesn’t appear in documents handed down from the Nara Period (710-784). When the sixth shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394-1441) visited Todaiji temple in 1429 ...

The ceiling of the newly built Tokaden features decorative panels, each illustrated by Japanese painter Noriko Okawara with flowers featured in the Manyoshu waka poem collection, as seen in this ...

An imposing statue of Amitābha Buddha has been unearthed at Yakjon-ri site, with ceramic and tile finds confirming it dates ...

Models Nara and Lucky Blue Smith stop by the Vogue kitchen to whip up crispy chicken sandwiches. Nara—TikTok’s silky-voiced, modern-day Barefoot Contessa—guides Lucky through the recipe ...

Nara is a city located in the Kansai region of Japan, near Kyoto and Osaka. It was the first permanent capital of Japan, ...

In Japan, the simple act of walking has long been connected to working toward enlightenment.