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Filled with cuisine, cafés, and seasonal spots Kashihara

Enjoy Kashihara with all the five senses, even the sixth sense!

Directions to Kashihara City Tourism Information Centers The central and southern areas of Nara Pref. Kashihara City Volunteer Tour Guides Shinkansen Kintetsu Limited Tokyo Station Station Yamato-Yagi Station (About 3 hours 10 minutes) Kashihara City Tourism Information Center bullet train Express Volunteer guides introduce Kashihara, Kintetsu Limited Express 1-6-8 Naizen-cho providing clear explanations of its By Nagoya Station Yamato-Yagi Station (About 1 hour 50 minutes) 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. highlights, cuisine, history, and culture. MAP C-2 Kintetsu Limited Open year-round Guide charge: Free Train Station Tsuruhashi Station Yamato-Yagi Station (About 1 hour) Express Asuka Region Tourism Information (1,000 yen per guide for transportation expenses / Separate charge for food Kintetsu Limited Kashiharajingu-mae Kashihara Tourism Infomation Osaka Station Tennoji Station / Osaka Abenobashi Station (About 50 minutes) expenses if time overlaps with meal times) Express Station Center Jingumae 652-2 Kume-cho About 14 km to central Kashihara City on the Nishi-Meihan Expressway from the Tenri Interchange on the Meihan Expressway (Kashihara City Tourism Association) By Car About 22 km to central Kashihara City on the Minami-Hanna Expressway from Mihara Junction on the Hanwa Expressway 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Open year-round MAP C-4 By Airport Bus About 1 hour to Yamato-Yagi Station by limousine bus from Kansai International Airport

Kashihara City Inquiries Tourism Association *Please direct accommodation-related requests to accommodation facilities

*The information published in this pamphlet is valid as of February 15, 2019 if not indicated otherwise. There may be changes from this information, so please inquire with each facility for the latest information and details. *The various costs printed in this pamphlet are the total prices with the 8% consumption tax already included. The Avocado Bowl, the most popular dish, uses a whole avocado and is topped with a soft-boiled egg and Italian pancetta. Try it during lunchtime from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The café interior, a renovated row house from the early Showa period, has a counter (4 seats), tables (6 seats) and a tatami room (4 people).“Koma-tsunagi” means a ring used to tie horses and cows to the house in the Edo period in Imai-cho. The coffee uses beans roasted at Tomitaya in the neighborhood. Try the Koma-tsunagi tiramisu in a Yoshino cedar container.

Mutsuki

This café opened in April 2018. Its menu features the owner's homemade sweets, light meals, and seasonal drinks that pair well with the flavor of the ingredients. The tiramisu made with many layers of dried persimmons, matcha mizuyokan jelly, home-made red bean jam, cheese cream, and more, is Get lost in the Edo period this café's top recommendation. It has a good bittersweet taste! A stroll through Imai-cho 1-9-12 Imai-cho MAP G-6 A place where lifestyle and history coexist, Imai-cho still has the appearance of the Edo period. Imai-cho was once so prosperous that there was a An extraordinarily comfortable café saying that“70% of Yamato's gold can be found within Imai.” to relax in whenever your visit. Many dignified buildings still remain. About one third of its 1,500 buildings are traditional. Enjoy a relaxed ramble among them. Hackberry Located in an old, traditional, self-renovated Discover fresh soy sauce house. It bustles with many customers throughout the day, and its extensive menu fermented through the power of nature. features Japanese and western fusion lunches, Tsuneoka Soy Sauce Brewery homemade cakes, western pancakes, and more. Its stylish, warm interior is great. The brewer maintains the traditional production method of soy sauce prepared in Yoshino cedar 1-3-3 Imai-cho MAP G-6 vats since its establishment in the Meiji period. The moromi main mash is fermented over a long An old hardware merchant's time period by carefully laying it out for one to house where you can experience two years. The resulting soy sauce has a A Japanese café renovated The carefully maintained original well-rounded aroma and is full of flavor. It's appearance of a mid-Edo-period the Edo period lifestyle. from a treasured, traditional, Take a rest Many unique cafés available in sample sizes, such as a 200 ml townhouse with repairs and bottle, so it's great as a souvenir. 300-year-old house. renovations spanning 13 generations. Former Kometani Residence Once owned by the Kometani family, it is now 3-2-34 Imai-cho MAP F-7 Café Furui an Important Cultural Property open to the ➡See p.10 for product information The quintessence of Imai-cho's traditional public. It has an impressive architectural style architecture, the space has the original with a gabled roof, hon-kawarabuki tile-roofing, appearance of an Imai-cho house such as and a hirairi main entrance. The interior has a Experience A flourishing venerable warehouse. Deep flavor beams and latticed windows. It has a sweets wide earthen floor, a rarity in Imai-cho, a the lifestyle and café menu with items such as black veranda facing the back garden, and other sesame pudding, as well as light meals such features, and photographs are encouraged. A historic sake brewery as Kakinohazushi(sushi wrapped with operated since the Edo period. 1-10-11 Imai-cho MAP G-6 persimmon leaf), soba noodles and more. There is also a tea garden next door where You can go inside the townhouse too. Kawai Sake Brewery pets are allowed, so come here to have a It has a seagull motif With its main house designated as a national relaxing time. because its first location Important Cultural Property, this is Imai-cho's was near Uno Port in 4-6-13 Imai-cho MAP F-6 only sake brewery. The building offers a glimpse Okayama. at wealthy merchants with its tatami room and other features on the second floor. It is possible to visit (for a fee) the exhibition room showing precious sake brewing equipment during the period outside the brewing season (around Enticing with its attractive The seasonal crème spring to October). brûlée parfait with menu and friendliness. 1-7-8 Imai-cho MAP G-6 strawberry sorbet and ➡See p.10 for product information Unomachi Café Nara milk pudding has a For the start of a stroll, A truly treasured castle-like building light, refreshing The second location of this aftertaste. learn the history of Imai-cho. rebuilt in 1650. popular Okayama café opened in December 2018 in Imai-cho. In Hanairaka, Imai-cho Information Center Imanishi Family Residence addition to photogenic parfait and This archival center in an old educational Living on the west side of Imai-cho, this family held the rank of lassi you'll want to upload to museum from the Meiji period is located in the Sotoshiyori (town elder). It is said that during the summer siege social media, there are also toast, southeast corner of Imai-cho. It has displays of Osaka, because the fifth generation head of the family curry, and more. The back terrace that explain the history of Imai-cho. It also has protected the west entrance to Imai-cho from Toyotomi Hideyori, is recommended for relaxing coin-operated parking spaces, making it the he was offered the name of Imanishi by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The during the warm seasons. perfect spot for people arriving by car. splendid building and interior courtyard are worth seeing. 4-3-6 Imai-cho MAP G-6 2-3-5 Imai-cho MAP G-7 3-9-25 Imai-cho MAP F-6

02 Mountains that appear in Mt.Unebiyama Mt. Mt. Japanese myths and waka poetry. Kaguyama Miminashiyama Yamato Sanzan Heal yourself with the fragrance of flowers Yamato Sanzan (three mountains of Yamato) is the general term for Mt.Kaguyama, Mt.Unebiyama, and Although it is the second largest city in the prefecture after Nara City, Kashihara City has many tranquil landscapes. Mt.Miminashiyama in Kashihara City. The Lovely flowers welcome you to historic landmarks and temples. The representative highlights are introduced here. mountains are unchanged since ancient times. Mt.Kaguyama, known as“heavenly Mt.Kaguyama,” This is the was said to have descended from heaven in the place to see Fudoki (ancient local reports). Mt.Unebiyama has Nara's characteristic the shrine of at its base. MAP E-3/C-4/D-2 scenery!

Because the view from the Fujiwara See hidden history Palace Ruins to Mt.Kaguyama has no concrete buildings, it in a casual atmosphere seems like a location in a movie by director Located in the center of , Kashihara City is alive with the Kawase Naomi. history of various eras. Open up your senses and take a relaxed walk to discover several legends amidst the casual atmosphere.

The location of 's first capital

Fujiwara Palace Ruins Fujiwara capital was a large city and the first capital in Japanese history during the time spanning the Asuka period and the Nara period. The palace ruins remain as an expansive field with the appearance from 1,300 years ago. You can enjoy seasonal flowers and views of the Yamato Sanzan mountains.

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Enshrines the Amano Iwato Rock walk around the Step into the legendary world most sacred Mt. Amano Iwato-jinja Shrine Uneotsutamoto-jinja Shrine Kaguyama This ancient shrine enshrines the The area around Mt.Kaguyama, Enshrines the goddess rock that concealed the sun Nakisawame. According to the goddess Amaterasu according to the subject of religious beliefs, has many old shrines. From the Kojiki (Records of Ancient legend, and lacks a main shrine Matters), Nakisawame was born building. The“miracle of 7 bamboo starting point, it takes about 10 minutes to climb the hill-like from the tears shed by the god trees” originates from here, in Izanagi, who had lost his wife. which old bamboo trees wither and mountain with an elevation of 152.4 meters. Experience its quiet, sacred Foodie Spot MAP E-3 7 new trees are grown each year. 772 Minamiura-cho 114 Kinomoto-cho MAP D-3 atmosphere. Tearoom at Spellbound by the Known as a Violet flowers A sprawling the rose temple fragrance of roses flower temple floating on water carpet of flowers Kashihara Festivals Café Ofusa Ofusa-Kannon Temple Kume-dera Temple Moto Yakushi-ji Fujiwara Palace Ruins Foodie Spot There are regional festivals held throughout Nara Feel the Edo period Relax with tea while gazing out at This commoners’ temple is This temple was built by the Temple Ruins Multicolored flowers thrive in Prefecture. Kashihara City too has many traditional Enkutei garden behind the main beloved as a temple for younger brother of Prince This temple was the this vast area of land, Yagi Fudanotsuji Exchange Center Fragrant race cake freshly events passed down for generations. temple building. The damask rose health. About 4,000 flowers, Shotoku at the wishes of predecessor to Yakushi-ji including about 2.5 million The Hirataya inn was on the crossing of the old Horanya Fire Festival essence juice is the most popular. including English rose, in Empress Suiko. A hydrangea Temple in Nishinokyo of Nara canola blossoms, 11 varieties pounded each morning Kume-dera Temple roads known as Shimotsu-Michi St. and Yoko-Oji August 15 at Kasuga-jinja Cool off with about 3,800 varieties of rich garden is opened in early City. The roughly 14,000 of lotus flowers, and cosmos Sanaburiya Nerikuyo St. Looking at the building with its old appearance, May 3 at Kume-dera Temple shaved ice rose fragrance and colors summer to the public with water hyacinths growing in flowers that completely cover Sanaburi is the holiday Shrine and Hachiman-jinja let you experience the feelings of a time past, while listening overflow the grounds. 3,500 flowers of about 40 the surrounding fallow fields 30,000 square meters. after rice planting. This A festival before the busy Shrine when this was a to the wind varieties. The Thunberg's will enrich your heart with farming season in spring. A 6-22 Ofusa-cho MAP C-3 Takadono-cho, etc. shop still sells the rice A summer fire festival crossing for people chimes in roughly-100-meter bridge lined meadowsweets in March and their lovely faint violet color. MAP D-3 cakes eaten on the last representative of Nara which is going east for the summer. Roses azaleas in May are also with 25 bodhisattvas that also a Prefectural Intangible Kidono-cho MAP D-4 rice-planting day. They Ise pilgrimage and mid-May to mid-June / Rape blossoms early to mid-April evokes the bridge of Amida 6-22 Ofusa-cho famous. are characterized by their Folk Cultural Property. It is a south for the Omine mid-October to early November Water hyacinths Lotus early July to mid-August Buddha that connects our majestic, bustling festival in MAP C-3 502 Kume-cho MAP C-4 granulated texture made with half whole pilgrimage. late August to early September transient world and the which 16 torches are dedicated Cosmos early to mid-October wheat and half sticky rice. Hydrangeas Buddhist Pure Land. at Hachiman-jinja Shrine and 2-1-1 Kitayagi-cho early June to early July 243 Nawate-cho MAP C-3 MAP C-4 Kasuga-jinja Shrine in MAP C-2 Higashibojo-cho. MAP B-3·4 04 03 Homemade soba noodles and à la carte dishes

The authentic Szechuan Suian mapo tofu, a signature dish The soba noodles made each morning by the owner that expertly combines are thin with a smooth texture. The Imaizen is Szechuan peppers and chili peppers, as well as recommended, with soba noodles served in broth or the steamed meat separately in a basket as well as a seasonal item and dumplings made with tempura. At night, in addition to soba, it turns into a Baaku pork from Izumisawa little restaurant serving Farm in Gojo are must- seasonal fish and vegetables. orders! Eat them while Enjoy this with local Nara they're piping hot. sake. 1-4-35 Imai-cho MAP G-6

It's best to visit as early as possible at lunch as there are many local regulars. There are counter seats and a tatami room in the restaurant.

Enjoy the lively A popular restaurant in the northwest area of Yamato-Yagi Station known local ambiance as“Ura-Yagi” (Yagi backstreets). There are so many fans attracted to their Various types of healthy flavors brought out the best in seasonal ingredients from classics to Chinese Bar original creations using seafoods and vegetables. You should also try the Mitsukan Chinese medicine drinks made by the owner's wife. delicious restaurants in Kashihara City 4-4-5 Naizen-cho MAP C-2 There are many lovely restaurants you will want to go to, such as a French cuisine and soba noodles restaurant in a Soba Noodles renovated Machiya traditioal townhouse, a bar and izakaya where locals gather, and more.

Half-size servings are also available, so let the staff know. Japanese Bar Seasonal dish (example)

Refined French cuisine that will spark joy Tama Beef and mushroom pasta with butter soy Cuisine served with beautiful sauce, and sea urchin presentation that seems like a carbonara with painting on the dishes, made homemade pasta. The with local Nara fresh pasta lunch set comes vegetables, meat, and fish with an organic selected by the chef. vegetable salad (with After feasting with your eyes, homemade dressing) and homemade it's time to savory the intricate focaccia. Roasted Jerusalem artichokes that topped with ripe flavors of sauce and different nameko mushrooms and dried enoki mushrooms textures of the ingredients. from Totsukawa Village in Nara Prefecture finished Elegance in a relaxed atmosphere 4-5-14 Imai-cho MAP F-6 with a fermented mushroom sauce Trattoria Maezawa Tosa cuisine in a hidden Casually beautiful, Roasted duck raised in Mount Katsuragi garnished with purple vegetables (lower left) house on a backstreet authentic Japanese cuisine Strives as much as possible for its sauces, bouillon, pizza Tosa no Megumi Idaki Kifuu dough, etc. to be homemade, and uses plenty of organic vegetables centered on ingredients from Nara Prefecture. This locally-famous Kochi cuisine The owner, who trained at a Japanese Popular menu items are the Yamato Beef steak and the restaurant is nestled in the street outside restaurant for 17 years, opened this kaiseki sea urchin carbonara with homemade pasta. Relax in the Yagi-Nishiguchi Station. The lightly grilled restaurant in 2016. The lunch full-course open atmosphere. bonito sashimi has its fat still on for a meal, about 11 seasonally flavored dishes melt-in-your-mouth delicious flavor of The interior, a renovated 300-year-old such as sashimi, a grilled dish, and a 2nd floor, 1-7-38 warehouse, is a modern Japanese style Yagi-cho MAP C-2 The owner, fascinated by Kochi's glossy fish meat. You should also try the seasonal rice dish in an earthenware pot, is local sake and fish, serves with space with unchanged traditional fried moray eel with a springy texture. tremendously popular every day. excellent hospitality and fresh beams of bright, plain wood. seasonal ingredients. 1-9-10 Yagi-cho MAP C-2 4-2-14 Imai-cho MAP F-6 Scallop tartare with local vegetables, finished with Uda saffron sauce and tomato essence foam (lower right)

06 05 Feel the sacred atmosphere Relax at a retro Foodie Spot Mausoleum of Emperor Jimmu coffee shop This is the imperial tomb of Emperor Jimmu, Japan's first emperor. Walk the long gravel approach to the Café Sando large torii gate made of unpainted natural wood. You Café Sando has been can visit it together with Kashihara-jingu Shrine as it loved by local regulars adjoins to the north. You can also receive an imperial and pilgrims to tomb visit stamp at the Mausoleum Regional Office. Kashihara-jingu Shrine Okubo-cho MAP C-3 Over 2,000 years from the Jomon period for about 50 years. Filled with the appeal of a Victory! Omikuji fortune to the Edo period! homely coffee shop from the good old days, Enshrining Emperor Jimmu and the Empress, Grounds filled with nature including the Touch and experience Japanese history fostered by the kind Kashihara-jingu Shrine is known as a“power spot” for Forest Park where evergreen trees, couple who run it. There better fortune and luck. Check out the omikuji fortunes such as camphors and oaks grow Kashihara City, where the histories of the various eras of Japan live on, is a treasure trove of cultural assets. are daily set meals for and omamori amulets! thickly, and Fukada Lake with its quiet By enjoying learning at the experience-based history museum, lunch. grace. Take a walk while feeling divine healing after your shrine visit. you'll have double the excitement when actually touring the ancient tumuli and historic landmarks. 903 Kume-cho MAP C-4

Kinshi Mikuji Ayu Mikuji A sacred area at the foot of Features a design of the lucky bird With the fish that has a close Mt.Unebiyama that guided Emperor Jimmu to connection to Emperor Jimmu, victory during the hard-fought battle this omikuji fortune derives from Kashihara-jingu Shrine with local ruling families during the the legend that a sweetfish Touch real legendary founding of Japan. predicted his victory in battle. artifacts! Kashihara-jingu Shrine is built on the site of where Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor of Japan, was said to be enthroned. The expansive grounds measuring about 530,000 square meters give a refreshing feeling filled with a pure atmosphere. You'll want to have a majestic visit in the early morning surrounded by silence. See, touch, and experience At the same 934 Kume-cho distance as MAP C-4 Kashihara City researchers! Museum of History This museum displays everything from Kashihara City's historic ruins to excavated materials on a scale of over 2,000 years. It's also interesting to see the work environment of the staff who restore the artifacts. Look forward to what you can touch! 858-1 Kawanishi-cho MAP B-4 Listen to the early The Asuka area, the village of ancient romance, is nearby. Take a walk among the tumuli! It's recommended to visit morning stillness them all together! Niizawa-Senzuka Tumuli Group in the land where The park adjoining the museum is actually a group of about 600 prominent Japanese ancient Japan began tumuli. A promenade is set up among the tumuli, and it's a Kashihara-jingu Shrine is a sacred place nice feeling to take a relaxed Asuka Village has a nostalgic representative of Kashihara City. walk on it. MAP B-4 agricultural village atmosphere On the expansive grounds of Mt. Unebiyama, unchanged since old times, with have a morning shrine visit to cleanse your soul. You can see the burial historic features preserved under Separate yourself from your busy life and return to accessories excavated Asuka law. Visit the precious from the tumuli cluster at scenery you can only find here. nature's rhythm. the museum. Some of the Foodie Spot A Chinese restaurant items are from as far-away filled with a local as Persia and China too. atmosphere. Shokudoraku The surprising volume Take a history tour on a rented bicycle of food comes from the owner's wish to fill the Riding from Kashihara to the Asuka area is a popular trip on rented bellies of local university bicycles. Take a freewheeling tour while enjoying the historic ruins and students. The restaurant nostalgic scenery here and there. Renting an electric bicycle will be is supported by locals, recommendable for Asuka area. such as one family of four generations that You can rent a bicycle here comes to eat there. ●Kashihara City Rent-A-Cycle Kotorin ●Asuka Rent-A-Cycle 1-4-3 Minamiyagi-cho It's on the first floor of the Kashihara City Asuka Station Office MAP C-3 Tourism Information Center, so it's At a convenient location outside Kintetsu convenient to do alongside gathering Railway Asuka Station. There are also three information. other offices, so check them out! 1-6-8 Naizen-cho MAP C-2 13-1 Koshi, Asuka-mura MAP C-5

08 You'll arrive after a walk of around 5 minutes up a slightly Japanese confectionery Mimatsu elevated hill in a This venerable shop residential area. It Fruit Daifuku Rice Cake has made kinako measures about 11 An exquisite balance of fruit, lightly dango for 140 years. meters east to west, wrapped white bean jam, and refined You can enjoy them 8 meters south to sitting in the chairs in gyuhi mochi. The juicy daifuku rice north, and with a the shop. cakes also have cute packaging, making height of 4.7 meters. them perfect as souvenirs. It's made of granite and said to weigh 1-8-5 Yagi-cho MAP C-2 The great big fruits about 800 tons. Sticky, gentle flavor will make you happy. Uses seasonal fruits, including over 10 kinds You'll get addicted in summer, such as to the sweet sauce. Tsuneoka watermelon and fig. The Soy Sauce Brewery mitarashi dango (sweet soybean flour Murasaki 200 ml dumplings) grilled at the Ponzu Soy Sauce 300 ml shop are also recommended Jun-Koikuchi 300 ml Tsuneoka Soy Sauce Brewery brings out the flavor by resting The flavorful Honjozo Soy Sauce Dangosho Yagi Shop the product for four seasons after preparing it in spring each is prepared in Yoshino cedar vats. Kinako dango The smooth, year. The strongly-flavored soy (soybean flour dumpling) mellow flavor sauce is brewed for over one This is the place for snacks and yields many repeat Sharpen your instincts year. The Murasaki soy sauce, customers presents in Kashihara! Featuring prepared over two years, is an dango dumplings with a light texture exquisite item with even further made with rice flour and the depth and robustness. secret-recipe sweet sauce. They're The mystery of eternal land freshly made and covered with 3-2-34 Imai-cho MAP F-7 soybean flour in the shop. Legends passed down for millennia, and historic ruins 1-3-8 Naizen-cho MAP C-2 and sacred places that have been preserved. Refresh yourself by stimulating your dormant“sixth sense” in Kita Sake Brewery these places that said to be“power spots.” Sweet and crisp Photo by sake passed Miyokiku Yama no Kami TOGO YUTA down through 720 ml generations Yamato no Kaori 720 ml The truth is still shrouded in mystery. The Miyokiku sake uses Yama Kashihara Souvenirs no Kami sasayuri yeast from A full selection of Kashihara souvenirs Four Haniwa figure Masuda no Iwafune Omiwa-jinja Shrine, and you'll want to buy, from the signature shapes: horse, Yamato no Kaori sake has a soldier, bell, and This massive mysterious stone suddenly items of shop with a long history to vessel. From simple casual taste. This venerable appears within a bamboo grove. It's not noteworthy new items. Find your favorites. 2-piece boxes to clear who put it here or why, but there are brewery faithfully upholds the 30-piece boxes are various theories, such as that it was a dedication of its founder. available stone monument to a prominent monk 8 Gobo-cho MAP C-4 Discover the delicious milk Kobo-Daishi, an astrological monument, or Venerable sake brewery founded caramel-like flavor of So cheese! a prat of tumulus under construction. It in 1718. It produces Nara-esque Kashihara Oak Hotel became a sightseeing spot of Yamato vintages. Province during the Edo period. Asuka Otome For prayers for This is an original sweet from the 8 Shirakashi-cho MAP C-5 pregnancy and A tree that appears easy childbirth Kashihara Oak Hotel using How about pouring a drink Signature Kashihara in legends is in the traditional old“So” cheese. The into a smiley-face sake cup? souvenir modeled shrine grounds! Amanokaguyama-jinja Shrine Japanese-style butter cake pairs Kawai Sake Brewery on Haniwa pottery. The hahaka tree located in the grounds appears well with the flavor of the in Kojiki (A Records of Ancient Matters). As a traditional cheese boiled down Haniwa Manju Honjozo Genshu Shusse practice of fortune-telling, its bark is used to from cow's milk. Smooth koshian red bean Otoko 720 ml burn the bones of deer in Mt.kaguyama. Junmaishu Unebi 720 ml 905-2 Kume-cho Jingu-mae jam is nestled within soft Foodie Spot Sake cup with logo MAP C-4 castella sponge cake. 608 Minamiura-cho MAP E-3 There are also white bean This 280-year-old sake brewery The beautifully-colored cake has three jam and cream flavors, as melts into the Imai-cho streetscape. kinds of Japanese chestnuts, plums, and Bread and self-serve breakfast well as limited-time-only Its representative sake Shusse matcha and adzuki beans. It matches the chocolate. Good Morning Boujyou Dotted with old Unebiyamaguchi-jinja Otoko is perfect for presents. Get rich flavor of So cheese with its not-too- sweet taste and moist texture. This is a new style of café from Rustic the playful sake cup set. Shrine Bakery, a famous bread store. You order the shrines where you This shrine is said to have been 1-7-8 Imai-cho MAP G-6 Mutsuki “drink bar” option (all the self-serve drinks at the foot of Mt.Unebiyama It has a selection of slightly dry you want, including tea gruel), and then freely can feel the power since the 7th century. sake that pair well with food. The faintly expanding Mutsuki Chopsticks (3 pairs) relax in the old, traditional house. Make it a There is a belief that there is a sweet flavor of So cheese Akahada ware chopstick rest, breakfast set for an additional charge! god that grants easy childbirth, Kobayashi Tofu Kashihara City Tourism Nara painting 839-1 Higashibojo-cho MAP B-4 Iruka-jinja Shrine and there is a sacred stone for Information Center Yoshino cedar chopsticks and cedar The legendary Soga no Iruka is enshrined here. pregnancy in the shrine grounds. Kinugoshi Dofu (Silken Tofu) items made by the brother-in-law of a Yamato Age Souvenir Shop According to history, the deities specializes in 157-1 Otani-cho MAP B-4 This tofu shop, where the owner does everything from chopstick wholesaler, and chopstick healing illness above the neck, as well as production to delivery himself, has had many fans for So Yanen Kashihara, rests and small dishes with Nara giving blessings for academic achievement. paintings by an artist on Akahada ware. A historical figure, many years. The large, Yamato Age pieces, fried at a 5 pieces 335 Shoko-cho Soga no Iruka is A selection of refined local items. It also has a high temperature, is a great mixture of thin fried These confectionary creations were MAP C-2 enshrined here aburaage tofu and thick fried atsu-age tofu. 1-9-12 Imai-cho MAP G-6 guesthouse (B&B). devised by local confectioner Please inquire for 4-5-12 Imai-cho MAP F-6 Sasanotomi as sweets for Kashihara- There is a corner with assorted items in the café, details. You can buy konjac, tofu, fried tofu, soy milk, and jingu Shrine. The So cheese so drop by when you have tea. The Bambi Bread with its more from the vending machine outside the shop. reproduced by the local Nishii Ranch exquisite wheat aroma and is used to add flavor. melt-in-your-mouth texture. Please try Nara's famous specialty 1-6-8 Naizen-cho MAP C-2 Yoshino cedar chopsticks Yamato Age. and Akahada ware

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