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NaraShrines & Temples
Nara

Todaiji

The Great Buddha was consecrated in 752. Its hall is among the largest wooden buildings standing anywhere. The Omizutori at Nigatsudo is the rite of drawing the water sent from Jinguji in Wakasa.

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Ikaruga

Horyuji

Held to be the oldest wooden buildings standing anywhere in the world, and in 1993 among the first World Cultural Heritage sites in Japan. Thirteen centuries, and the timber still stands. That is not only a fact about material. It means the people repairing it never once broke the chain.

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Nara

Kasuga Taisha

The stone and hanging lanterns along the approach come to about 3,000. These too were all dedicated by worshippers, the same structure as the thousand torii at Fushimi Inari. The deer of Nara Park are held to be the messengers of this shrine's deity, and are a Natural Monument.

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Sakurai

Omiwa Jinja

It has no main hall: Mount Miwa itself is the deity. One of the oldest shrines in Japan, keeping the form of belief that came before worshipping a building. Miwa somen is said to have spread from the method handed down in this shrine's priestly family.

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Nara

Yakushiji

The East Pagoda is a National Treasure and the only building surviving from the temple's founding. Each storey carries a pent roof, and it has been called frozen music.

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Nara

Toshodaiji

Founded by Jianzhen. After five failed crossings and the loss of his sight, the monk reached Japan and brought the precepts with him. The golden hall is a National Treasure.

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Sakurai

Tanzan Jinja

Its wooden thirteen-storey pagoda is said to be the only one in the world. The name comes from the spot where Prince Naka no Oe and Nakatomi no Kamatari conferred on the Taika Reform.

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Uda

Muroji

Where Koyasan barred women, this temple took them in, and was called the Koyasan for women. Its five-storey pagoda is the smallest National Treasure pagoda standing outdoors.

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