3-Hour Nara City Walking tour
This tour with me takes you through main sights of Nara inside out. You can choose if you want to visit more temples, do more of shopping or just walk, find some calm places and feed the deers. If you want to listen more about history side an importance of Buddhism and Shinto, I can provide it too.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
JR Nara Station
- Nara City Tourism Information Center houses the best materials and maps to start our tour with. It is situated within an old train station building and has friendly staff.
Sanjo Street
As city’s thoroughfare, it is the main connection route toward the main sights. It contains many high-end fashion boutiques, as well as practical drug- and souvenir-stores.
Higashimuki and Mochiidono Shopping Street
Famous mochi shops, local chest-nuts and deserts, local produce, restaurants serving Japanese, but also Taiwanese or for example Italian foods.
Naramachi, Gangoji Temple, Kofuku-ji Temple
If you want, we can take a stroll inside of the city’s origins to look at townhouses’ architecture and small souvenir shops and boutiques, as well as temples and what relics they store.
Nara Park
The center of all happening in Nara. A 600 hectare area in which main sights reside, along with a thousand of free-roaming deers, sacred messengers of Shinto Gods. From here, if you want, we can decide to walk toward one of two biggest Nara sights - Todaiji or Kasuga Taisha Shrine.
Todaiji/ Kasuga Taisha Shrine
Todaiji houses the biggest statue of Buddha in the world (400 tons of bronze) in the biggest wooden building in the world (!).
Kasuga Taisha, an ages-old ancient guardian of Nara, has thousands of lanterns and deers under its command to protect the city, a primeval forest in its back to guide you to a journey for finding yourself according to ways of Buddhist monks.
Please make your selection.
Ending Point
Todaiji/ Kasuga Taisha Shrine
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide fee include
Food, shopping or travel to the meeting place or away from the end point is not included.
Bus travel or any transportation during the tour is not included.
If you would like to modify the tour to your comfort, please contact me and I will customize it for you and according to your wishes (duration including)
Tour Important Information
This tour involves moderate amount of walking, good walking shoes (closed) strongly recommended!
There may be some uphill walking, but only if you want. Most of the area is flat.
Important message from the supplier
Hello everyone! Please feel free to send me requests with dates and your travel schedules. I’ll do my best to accommodate your wishes.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
About Tour Guide Ondrej R.
Dear Travellers! My name is Ondrej and I have been living in Kyoto for six years. I’m currently conducting tours in English and Czech languages.
My hometown is Prague, Czech Republic, but I have left it behind years ago to live in Japan forever.
In my young years, I did a wide portfolio of various sports including soccer, futsal, skateboarding, cycling, boxing and athletics (both competition/ hobby level), so I can say that I am a sportsman. However, I reached my biggest successes at chessboard - playing the highest youth chess league of my country and finally attaining a chess coach licence.
At the academic level, I studied Human Sciences combined with Natural Sciences at University.
My primary goal is to satisfy your needs in a new city as for what you’d like to see. Based on a given venue, I focus on incorporating its meaning into a complete/ bigger picture of the whole culture and historical system.
If you’re not sure, I’m always happy to build a convenient tour plan involving appropriate amount of walking and transfers.
I have been raising my children in Kyoto for six years and realizing that traveling with children may sometimes be a challenge, I invite tours with children as well.
I have experience working with and guiding people from all over the world. Kyoto is a precious Japanese artifact and it is filled with unique places and cultural values and heritages.
Osaka offers a wide array of cultural meanings and cuisine delicacies, as well as hidden corners and pleasurable views.
I also love to take my clients to cities of Nara and Uji as they are so important for understanding the core of Japanese soul.
Please contact me to book, customize or just inquire regarding tours.
Once you are ready, we can discuss which of yours or mines favorite places we visit. Until then, have a good day and travel safe wherever you go.
$89/ per person
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