Nara Private Tour by Public Transportation from Osaka
Description
This is a Nara private tour using by public transportation from Osaka. The guide will pick you up at the hotel. No problem with train and bus transfers, as the guides are with you! The destinations of the tour includes Todai-ji Temple, Kasuga Taisha, deer park, and other UNESCO World Heritage Site temples! For details of the tour, you can look at the what to expect section and inclusions excursions section of this web page.
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"It is a representative temple of Nara, where the Great Buddha is very famous. The Great Buddha Hall is one of the largest wooden buildings in the world. Also it is a temple where a lot of national treasures and heavy cultural properties are kept."
In the precincts, there is a red-painted and elegant shrine, which has been famous since ancient times as a famous place for wisteria. In addition, there is Kasuga Taisha National Treasure Hall in the precinct, and it stores and releases approximately 3,000 points including 352 national treasures and 971 important cultural properties.
"The park also includes Mt. Kasuga and Mt. Wakasa, Kofuku-ji, Todai-ji, Kasuga Taisha, etc. There are many buildings designated as National Treasures and Registered as World Heritage. In addition, approximately 1,200 deer inhabit in the garden. These deer are popular with tourists. You can enjoy Hanami as a cherry blossom viewing spot in spring."
Kofuku-ji is the former temple built as a private residence of Fujiwara Kamatari in Yamashina, Kyoto. It was moved to the present location by Fujiwara nofuhito with the Heijo shift capital in 710. At that time, it was named Kofuku-ji. Since then, it prospered as Mr. Fujiwara's temple, and was named one of the four great temples in the early Nara period.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(8)
A flop. The guide has not appeared. No message nothing. No phone to contact in such a case. Very disappointing!! I demand an opinion from you!!!
Unfortunately, we were forced to interrupt our tour after the first 20 minutes of getting to know and talking to the guide. The guide spoke English poorly, speaking quickly, quietly, and mumbling, making it difficult for us to understand him. When we asked him to speak more clearly, loudly, and slowly, he became frustrated and told us that we should not have come to Japan.
Mike was an extremely kind and knowledgeable tour guide. He went above and beyond right from the start by meeting us at our hotel and navigating us to Nara via metro from Osaka. Upon arriving in Nara, he took us to all of the main attractions, the Old Town, and much more. By being with Mike, we were able to cover so much ground due to his experience that we otherwise wouldn't be able to on our own. He was highly accommodating considering we had an under 2 year old child and a stroller. We’d highly recommend this tour for anyone looking to have a complete day in Nara. Thank you Mike!
The guide picked us up from our hotel, and we walked to the local station to get o the main line station (she helped us buy tickets at the two stations). I think if you were staying in town for several days buying a pass might be a good idea, but for us single tickets each way was best. The journey took over an hour from our area of the center of town. We then walked to and around the very large park area through which are scatterd a number of temple complex structures. The are some genuinely old and interesting things to see on this tour. In much of Japan the "old" temples have been burnt so often that their foundation dates are misleading. Being 70+ the walking was a bit tiring, but the guide e able us to go at our pace. The whole park area is filled with small deer who see tame and beg for food. They are not in say way aggressive just tame. If you don't want to feed themed your hands in front of you, faward, palms out. We ate lunch at a noodle shop in the park. I found the trip and the guide delightful. The place was busy but for Japan, not crowded.
Imeko is a great guide . She is attentive , knowledgeable , cares about her clients, warm and easy to communicate with. She made sure that we had seen everything what the program promised . We would highly recommend her as a guide and a great person.
Nara was wonderful! Emiko our guide skillfully guided us through Nara park past hordes of hungry deer to show us the amazing art, architecture, and tressures of the shrines and temples. I can't reccommend it more highly!
My guide Makino (Mike) was very kind, generous, and spoke great English. Since he’s lived in the US, he was very familiar American culture. He arrived early and was waiting for me in the lobby with a sign with my name which made it very easy. He guided me very efficiently through the public transport and made sure I was comfortable and enjoying myself. We had a beautiful day in Nara with the deer and visiting the Buddhist and Shinto temples.
Iliana Thank again for taking time out of your busy flight schedule to come to Nara. If you have any opportunity, please come and visit historical scenic spots near City of Osaka, such as Kyoto, Himeji, and Kobe. Thank for reminding me of my active days in your city, The Magic City. Wish your safe flight , always. Thanks Masahisa
Our guide was very good. He was very kind and helpful, and spoke english well. Reviews should not have to be long.
Thank you for joining our tour. We are happy to get 5 stars and great review. We hope you have a lot of memories in Japan.
