Experience Nara on a fully customizable private tour designed around your interests. Choose either a 4-hour or 8-hour option and explore the ancient capital with an expert local guide.
Meet your guide at your hotel in central Nara or at an agreed meeting point. Your guide will help create a realistic itinerary based on the places you would most like to visit, while taking walking and transportation time into account.
4-Hour Customizable Nara Tour – Sample Itinerary
A typical 4-hour tour focuses on the main highlights around Nara Park.
- Hotel pickup or meet your guide / Tour introduction — 10 minutes
- Todai-ji Temple / Visit the Great Buddha Hall and learn about the development of Buddhism in ancient Nara — 60 minutes
- Nara Park / Walk among the famous free-roaming deer — 30 minutes
- Kasuga Taisha Shrine / Explore the historic shrine and its lantern-lined approaches — 50 minutes
- Naramachi or another nearby area of your choice / Discover traditional streets, local culture, and historic townhouses — 50 minutes
- Walking and transportation between locations — approximately 60 minutes
The exact route can be adjusted according to your interests.
8-Hour Customizable Nara Tour – Sample Itinerary
The 8-hour option allows you to explore both the famous sights around Nara Park and additional historic districts and temples.
- Hotel pickup or meet your guide / Tour introduction — 10 minutes
- Todai-ji Temple / Great Buddha Hall and temple grounds — 70 minutes
- Nara Park / Walk through the park and meet the deer — 30 minutes
- Kasuga Taisha Shrine / Guided visit to one of Nara’s most important Shinto shrines — 60 minutes
- Naramachi / Explore Nara’s traditional merchant district — 60 minutes
- Lunch break — approximately 60 minutes
- Yakushiji Temple or Toshodai-ji Temple / Discover the history of early Japanese Buddhism and classical temple architecture — 60 minutes
- Additional sightseeing based on your interests — 60 minutes
- Walking and transportation between locations — approximately 70 minutes
Possible additional destinations include Kofuku-ji Temple, Isuien Garden, Yoshikien Garden, Yakushiji Temple, Toshodai-ji Temple, or other attractions that can reasonably be visited within the selected tour duration.
Both the 4-hour and 8-hour options are fully customizable. You may request particular temples, shrines, neighborhoods, gardens, or cultural themes, and your guide will arrange the order of the visit based on your preferences, opening hours, transportation, and walking distances.
The tour can end at your hotel in central Nara, at the final sightseeing location, or at another convenient place agreed upon with your guide.
