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TODAIJI

A car is seen wrecked near the Todaiji temple in the city of Nara on Sunday after its 79-year-old owner mistakenly hit the accelerator and hit two people, including a man from Taiwan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 25, 2024
Elderly driver fatally hits Taiwanese tourist near UNESCO temple in Nara
The driver, who runs a nearby souvenir shop, admitted to mistaking the accelerator for the brake pedal.
A wooden door of a Todaiji temple building in Nara Prefecture after it was vandalized with an image of what looks like a cat on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2023
World Heritage temple in Nara vandalized with cat-like image
Someone is believed to have used their finger to form the image on a wooden door of the building annexed to the temple's Nigatsu-do hall.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 26, 2023
Lamp Bar: Majestic cocktails befitting Japan’s ancient capital
Many visits to Kyoto include a day in Nara, and every trip to Nara should include a stop at Michito Kaneko’s exceptional cocktail bar.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Nov 20, 2022
The challenging journey that led to Nara's crown jewel
Image and temple were each the largest structure of its kind, dwarfing all work previously done in a country whose culture had never before, and rarely since, valued size for its own sake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 28, 2017
Nara temple's boardinghouse provides respite for seriously ill and their families
A boardinghouse at a World Heritage-listed Buddhist temple in the ancient capital of Nara has been serving as a place for the families of seriously ill and disabled people to take a much-needed break.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2016
Two temples, one shrine in Nara vandalized with liquid
Todaiji, one of the most prestigious Buddhist temples in Japan, and other religious sites in Nara Prefecture have been vandalized with some type of liquid.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 4, 2016
Reconnecting Japan's ancient cultural hub
"When I visited Todaiji Temple in Nara, just after I arrived as a Chinese student in Japan about 30 years ago, I felt somehow nostalgic as it had an atmosphere of old China," says Cai Guo-Qiang, as he explains his work for Culture City of East Asia 2016, Nara, a cultural project that launched in March. "I think that Todaiji is a symbol of cultural exchange between Japan and China, which crossed over the ocean by ships, bringing Buddhism, technology and culture as well as goods such as silk or ceramics. That's why I wanted to build a ship here to remind us of our close relationship in ancient time."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2015
Great Buddha of Nara has only half its reported number of hair curls
The Great Buddha of Nara, a 15-meter-high statue listed among Japan's national treasures, has only 492 spiraling curls of hair on its bronze head, not the 966 locks described in ancient documents, new research indicates.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2015
Tohoku kids to help stitch giant baseball glove for Great Buddha in Nara
A giant baseball glove is being stitched together for the Great Buddha of Nara as part of efforts to boost the spirits of children in Tohoku, which was hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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