1.Kōya-Ryūjin Quasi-National Park ・Nara/Wakayama Prefecture, Japan | ||||||
Kōya-Ryūjin Quasi-National Park (高野竜神国定公園, Kōya-Ryūjin Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in Nara and Wakayama Prefectures, Japan. It was established in 1967.[2][3] | ||||||
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2.Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park ・Kansai, Japan | ||||||
Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park (金剛生駒紀泉国定公園, Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in Nara, Ōsaka, and Wakayama Prefectures, Japan. It was established in 1958.[2][3] | ||||||
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3.Murō-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park ・Mie/Nara Prefecture, Japan | ||||||
Murō-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-National Park (室生赤目青山国定公園, Murō-Akame-Aoyama Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in Mie and Nara Prefectures, Japan. It was established in 1970.[2][3] | ||||||
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4.Yamato-Aogaki Quasi-National Park ・Nara Prefecture, Japan | ||||||
Yamato-Aogaki Quasi-National Park (大和青垣国定公園, Yamato-Aogaki Kokutei Kōen) is a Quasi-National Park in northeast Nara Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1970, the park consists of one continuous area spanning the borders of the municipalities of Nara, Tenri, and Sakurai. The park encompasses Mount Miwa, Byakugō-ji (白毫寺), Shōryaku-ji (正暦寺), Enshō-ji, Kōnin-ji (弘仁寺), Isonokami Jingū, Chōgaku-ji, Ōmiwa Jinja, and Hase-dera, as well as a number of kofun.[1][2][3] | ||||||
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5.Yoshino-Kumano National Park ・Kansai, Japan | ||||||
Yoshino-Kumano National Park (吉野熊野国立公園, Yoshino-Kumano Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park comprising several non-contiguous areas of Mie, Nara, and Wakayama Prefectures, in the Kansai region of Japan. Established in 1936, the park includes Mount Yoshino, celebrated for its cherry blossoms, as well as elements of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.[1][2] | ||||||
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6.Nara Park | ||||||
Nara Park (奈良公園, Nara Kōen) is a public park located in the city of Nara, Japan, at the foot of Mount Wakakusa. Established in 1880, it is one of the oldest parks in Japan. Administratively, the park is under the control of Nara Prefecture. The park is one of the "Places of Scenic Beauty" designated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Over 1,200 wild sika deer (シカ or 鹿 shika) freely roaming around in the park are also under designation of MEXT, classified as natural treasure. While the official size of the park is about 502 hectares (1,240 acres), the area including the grounds of Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, Kasuga Grand Shrine and Nara National Museum, which are either on the edge or surrounded by Nara Park, is as large as 660 hectares (1,600 acres). | ||||||
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7.Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore | ||||||
Nara Prefectural Museum of Folklore (奈良県立民俗博物館, Nara Kenritsu Minzoku Hakubutsukan) opened in Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan, in 1974. Located at the foot of the Yata Hills (矢田丘陵) within the 26.6 hectare Yamato Folk Park (大和民俗公園), the Museum collects, preserves, and displays artefacts relating to everyday life in Nara Prefecture from the Edo period to the Shōwa 40s. Among the forty-two thousand objects in the collection are 1,908 relating to forestry in the Yoshino District that have been jointly designated an Important Cultural Property. In the adjacent park are fifteen Edo-period minka, relocated from elsewhere in the prefecture, including the Former Usui Family Residence (旧臼井家住宅) (ICP).[1][2][3][4] | ||||||
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8.Asuka Historical National Government Park ・Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan | ||||||
Asuka Historical National Government Park (国営飛鳥歴史公園, Kokuei Asuka Rekishi Kōen) is a National Government Park established in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan in 1974.[1] The park comprises five areas: the Amakashi-no-Oka Area, where there is an observatory with a view over the old capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara-kyō and of Yamato Sanzan; the Iwaido Area, similarly with views to Yamato Sanzan as well as over the terraced rice fields of "Inner Asuka"; the Ishibutai Area; the Takamatsuzuka Area; and the Kitora Tumulus Area.[2] | ||||||
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9.Mount Kinpu | ||||||
Mount Kinpu (金峰山, Kinpu-san), or Mount Kinpō (金峰山, Kinpō-san) is a mountain and the main peak in the Okuchichibu Range in Kantō Mountains.[2] It is located in Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park[3] on the boundary of Nagano Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.[4]It has the sacred Gojoiwa rock, a Shinto holy site,[5] on its top and is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.[6] At 2599 m tall,[1] it is the second highest peak of the Okuchichibu Mountains. | ||||||
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