What other travelers are saying about Kofuku-ji Temple
It’s an amazing park and area with wild deer that are basically domesticated to the human visitors. The deer in the busy parts of the park are more aggressive and the deer on the outskirts are more friendly. They can be aggressive and poke into your bags and pockets. Be smart and cautious around them.
🙏🏻🟨 Where? Kofu-kuji in Nara Prefecture. Buddhist temple.
🟧 Kofu-kuji used to be the family temple of the Fujiwara, the most powerful aristocratic clan during much of the Nara and Heian Periods.
❇️ The temple was established in Nara-ken at the same time as the capital in AD 710. ▪︎At the height of Fujiwara power, the temple consisted of over 150 buildings.
✔️ Kofu-kuji is more than 1300 years old.
How to get there?
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✴️ Kofu-kuji is a five minute walk from Kintetsu-Nara Station,
🟦or a 20 minute walk from JR Nara Station
🙏🏻🟡 My throwback photos were taken in early autumn a few years ago in Nara.
Visited the temple during a rainy day and the walking around the park was wet. This temple has a large space and photo taking opportunity. However, some parts of the temple are under renovation and seems like for the summer in year 2024 , they might be under renovation.
Expect to pay yen500 to enter the main hall and the picture taking opportunity is better than taking from outside.
There is a main buddha status inside and photo taking is not allowed. Hopefully everyone who visits the temple respect the temple rules.
This is a very historic temple that is on your way from the JR train station to Nara Park. The temple is over 1300 years old, but most of the buildings are relatively recent reconstructions (though they are still beautiful). Certainly worth seeing.
A very nice temple in Nara, located just by the Nara Park. You need to get tickets to enter through temple, and they knly accept cash at the machines. There are no photos allowed when you're inside the temple. Limited statues to see inside but still worth seeing and reading about the history.