Our ironman cyclist Michael sets off from Osaka. Leaving the giant city, he tackles the challenge of Japan's steepest road on his way to historic Nara Prefecture, site of the capital 1,300 years ago.

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A new building inspired by an ancient Japan palace was recently completed here at Manyo Botanical Garden on the grounds of the iconic Kasugata ...

NARA--Researchers have unearthed a shield-shaped bronze mirror and massive iron sword in an ancient kofun burial mound here, unprecedented discoveries of their kind in Japan. The unusually ...

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 ...

Most visitors to Nara come for the sacred deer. They’ve been here for at least a thousand years, grazing on the city’s parkland, protected around the huge temples that trace the city’s ...

To this day, there are relics from far away kept in the ancient Shosoin treasure house of Todaiji temple. This fall, the Nara National Museum held its 75th annual exhibition of Shosoin artifacts.