Nara is a city located in the Kansai region of Japan, near Kyoto and Osaka. It was the first permanent capital of Japan, established in 710 AD, and is known for its rich cultural heritage, ancient ...

A 17-year-old Canadian national used his fingernail to etch the name "Julian" into a wooden pillar supporting the roof of the Toshodaiji Kondo temple built in 759 AD in the city of Nara, Japan.

While Nara was once the ancient capital of Japan, the city is best known now for the famous Nara deer. The four-legged residents are the city’s number one attraction and what makes a day trip to ...

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

An eighth century temple in Japan has been vandalized by a Canadian teen tourist, according to local police. The monument in question is the Toshodaiji Temple, located in the city of Nara, which ...

Nara is known for its cultural and natural heritage sites as ancient Japan’s first permanent capital before it was moved to Kyoto and Tokyo, and where some 1,300 free-roaming deer are regarded ...

ara, the ancient capital of Japan and the birthplace of Japanese culture and civilisation, is set to blossom as ‘the radiance of flowers in bloom’ as described in the ancient Manyoshu poems. Nara as ...

Stalls around Nara sell these special rice bran “Shika Senbei” treats, which are safe for the deer to eat. Deer walk past a historic temple in Nara. Carl Court/Getty Images ...

From the outside, the Tomio Maruyama burial mound in the city of Nara is unimpressive — the fenced-off property dotted with tree stumps, weeds and pebbles, and surrounded by modern residential ...

An Ancient Cultural Center. The ancient capital of Heijō-kyō was established in what is now Nara Prefecture in 710 and remained the seat of Japan’s imperial power until 794. During that time ...

Managing director of the Nara Visitors Bureau, Yasuhiro Nakanishi. The deer in Nara. Todaiji Temple. Chief Priest Koshin Ohara standing in front of the Shoryakuji temple. Nara, the ancient capital of ...