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【Recommended cherry blossom viewing spots🌸】If you’re going to see cherry blossoms in Nara, we recommend renting a kimono❣❣

This is the kimono rental shop Waplus Nara, Nara Park Bus Terminal store (*´꒳`*)🌙✨

 

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It’s still cold, but ”Setsubun” has passed and it’s already the beginning of spring🎶

 

Spring means cherry blossoms, and cherry blossoms mean cherry blossom viewing❣❣

 

Near Waplus Nara Nara Park Bus Terminal

Introducing some cherry blossom and cherry blossom viewing spots in Nara✨

【Nara Park (deer park)🦌】

Nara Park, where wild deer live,

isright in front of ” Waplus Nara Nara Park Bus Terminal “

It’s close to the station and has great access❣❣

 

It has been selected as one of Japan’s 100 best cherry blossom viewing spots,

and in this vast park of 5.11 million square meters,

you can enjoy a variety of cherry blossoms from late March to early May every year.

[Kofukuji Temple]

Kofuku-ji Temple is registered as a World Heritage Site as part of

the “Cultural Assets of Ancient Nara” along with Todai-ji Temple and other temples.

 

Somei-yoshino cherry trees, double-flowered cherry trees (late-blooming),

weeping cherry trees, and other trees are planted around the approach leading from

Sanjo-dori to the Nanendo Hall and the three-story pagoda,

allowing you to enjoy cherry blossoms for a long period of time.

 

The view of the cherry blossoms, the five-story pagoda (currently under construction),

the Chukondo Hall, the Nanendo Hall, and other buildings is beautiful.

[Around Todaiji Temple (Kasugano Garden, Nara Park)]

The spot where you can see the most cherry blossoms in the Nara Park area🦌

 

Cherry trees are planted around the grassy square,

and you can take photos with the Todaiji Great Buddha Hall and deer📷✨

 

You can enjoy the cherry blossoms with the Nara deer

with the Todaiji Great Buddha Hall in the background✨

 

The most Nara-like cherry blossom spot🌸

 

Cherry trees are planted in various places within the Todaiji temple grounds,

although not throughout the entire grounds❣❣

[Ukimido (Sagiike Pond, Nara Park)]

The building floating on the “Sagiike” pond in Nara Park is the “Ukimido” (* ˘ ᵕ ˘*)☆

 

Cherry trees are planted on the north side of the pond🌸

You can also take photos of the cherry blossoms superimposed on the Ukimido📷✨

 

A beautiful cherry blossom spot with distinctive buildings

and cherry trees reflected in the pond🌸

 

Popular for anniversary photo shoots such as pre-wedding photo shoots

and location photo shoots of furisode❣❣

[Himuro Shrine]

A shrine located right in front of the Nara National Museum ⛩

 

The weeping cherry trees in the precincts are famous,

but there are also cherry trees planted around the torii gate 🌸🎵

 

Himuro Shrine is a rare shrine dedicated to the god of ice✨

 

You can also get “ice fortune telling,” where the letters appear

when you place a fortune telling slip on the ice❣❣

 

Only in the summer, you can offer shaved ice as an offering and eat it as a gift🍧

[Nara City Cherry Blossom Forecast]

Forecasted blooming date: March 26th

(Announced at 5pm on February 21st, 2025 by Japan Weather Association)

 

West Japan’s cherry blossoms are expected to bloom at the average time(⋈◍>◡<◍)。✧♡

 

A seasonal feature of spring: Cherry blossoms🌸

In the Heian period, aristocrats would compose poems while looking at cherry blossoms

It is said that cherry blossom viewing began with an event where they played kemari❣❣

(a traditional Japanese game of kemari)

Why not enjoy spring in Nara wearing a kimono? ?

 

Kimono looks great against the cherry blossoms✨

 

If you want to rent a kimono in Nara,

we recommend Waplus Nara Nara Park Bus Terminal Store❣❣

 

Nara Park is right in front of you,

so you can meet the deer as soon as you change into a kimono🦌

 

Kofuku-ji Temple, a recommended cherry blossom spot, is also nearby✨

Todai-ji Temple and Kasuga Taisha Shrine are also within walking distance❣❣

 

It’s close to the station, so transportation is perfect🎶

You can rent a kimono at Waplus Nara without having to bring anything❣

We will look after your luggage✨

Feel free to enjoy going out in a kimono🎶

Leave it to Waplus Nara to help you create memories of your trip(*´꒳`*)✨

 

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Waplus Nara  Nara Park Bus Terminal store.

 

Nara Park Bus Terminal West Wing 2F
76 Noborioji-cho, Nara City, Nara 630-8213, Japan

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/waplusbt/
TEL:0742-25-2300

 

 

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