Nara Japan offers beauty, history and deer encounters, and is especially gorgeous during cherry blossom season.

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The Aoniyoshi isn’t just your average Japanese train—it’s an ode to ancient Nara. This luxury sightseeing express connects Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka in style, with plush twin seats, semi ...

A recent study found that Nara, Japan, has the most hidden gems in the country. Nara is home to 499 attractions, but it is best known for Nara Park, which has a population of deer that bow for snacks.

I am smitten with Tokyo's eclectic mix of modern cosmopolitanism and old world Japan,' confesses Dinesh Raheja.

Hopefully, that visit includes a visit to the “Kansai Trio” of Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. They’re all just two hours by train from Tokyo, in the same western direction—and each leg of the ...

Nara, the former imperial capital only 45 minutes by train from Kyoto, is an easy day trip. Among the main draws here are the roughly 1,200 wild sika deer that roam the 1,600-acre Nara Park.

Specifically, the deer who live in Nara, the ancient capital outside of Kyoto that is home to a series of UNESCO-recognized historic buildings. Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the ...

But even with the day-tripping crowds, its popularity is nothing compared to that of Kyoto, the nearby city that succeeded Nara as capital in 794. Only a few other people are strolling the path I ...