2025 Ikoma District Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in July)

#0yentravelJanuary2025 [Daihozo-in Temple] 🕰️Business hours: 0800-1700 🏖️Atmosphere/facilities: ◯ 📍Location: Horyuji-san, Ikaruga-cho, Ikoma-gun, Nara Prefecture 636-0115 💰Price per person: 1500~ 💞Reasons for recommendation: All of Horyuji's famous national treasures are here🤍 I was surprised at how big the Tamamushi Shrine is, which is familiar from textbooks! ︎ In order to protect the artworks, the interior is dim and difficult to see,, The surrounding area is also painted with highly colorful paints, similar to what we would call oil paintings today, and Buddhist scriptures are painted on all four sides, but since it's been 1200 years, some parts are blurry and difficult to see unless you read the explanations beforehand! ︎

#fallingseason #timetotravel The grounds of Hōryūji (Hōryū Temple) house the world's oldest surviving wooden structures, conveying images of Japan as it existed more than 1,300 years ago, during the Asuka Period (A.D. mid 6th - beginning of 8th c.). The story of Hōryūji's founding can be discovered in the historical writings engraved on the back of the halo of the Yakushi Nyorai Buddha statue, located on the eastern side of the room in the temple's Main Hall, and in the official inventory of Hōryūji property holdings recorded in 747. According to these records, the emperor Yōmei vowed to build a temple and an image of a Buddha as a form of prayer for his own recovery from illness-a vow he was never fated to fulfill, for he died shortly thereafter. These same writings state how Empress Suiko and Crown Prince Shōtoku fulfilled Emperor Yōmei's deathbed wish by building in 607 a temple and a statue of a Buddha, to which the temple was dedicated. The Buddha statue was of the Yakushi Nyorai (Bhaisajyaguru)―literally, "arrival as a healer"―and the temple was named the Ikaruga Temple (after the name of the location), or Hōryūji ("Temple of the Flourishing Law [of Buddhism]")

Visit the special attractions in Nara, Japan, and take a cable car in Ikoma City! If you buy a one-day pass for the Kintetsu Railway, you will get a free cable car ticket, so I prepared to rush up the mountain. The Ikoma Cable Car in Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture, is divided into two sections: the Hozanji Line from Toriimae Station to Hozanji Station and the Yamagami Line from Hozanji Station to Ikoma-Sanjo Station. At the end of the Yamagami Station Line, you can overlook Mt. Ikoma in Osaka City. If you have enough time, take a car to see the scenery! #Valentine's Day Destinations #JapanTravel #JapanFreeTravel #Nara