Nara, Japonya: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — Wakakusa Yamayaki, Japonya genelinde Winter break (fuyuyasumi)

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  Wakakusa Yamayaki

  20–28 Oca · geneldeIşık ve ateşKalabalık

  The grass on Wakakusa hill is set alight on the fourth Saturday of January, fireworks first. The whole city watches from the park, and it is as cold as Nara gets. Kaynak ↗

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Festival

  Nara Rurie winter illumination

  5–16 Şub · geneldeIşık ve ateş

  For a week in mid-February, blue light links Todaiji, Kasuga Taisha and Kofukuji through Nara Park, with evening temple openings and food stalls; it is the park's one busy night-time event of winter. Kaynak ↗

Çok kalabalık — Omizutori, Cherry blossom

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  Omizutori

  1–14 MarIşık ve ateşKalabalık

  Burning cedar torches are run along the balcony of Todai-ji's Nigatsu-do every night for a fortnight, the 12th being the big one. Nara says spring does not start until it finishes. Kaynak ↗

• Doğa

  Cherry blossom

  28 Mar – 12 Nis · geneldeKalabalık

  The deer park first, then Mount Yoshino an hour south, which flowers in bands up the hillside about a week later and is worth the early train.

Çok kalabalık — Cherry blossom, Golden Week

• Tatil

  Golden Week

  29 Nis – 6 MayKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  A run of public holidays from 29 April to 5 May when much of Japan travels at once: trains, flights and hotels fill, rates peak and popular sights are crowded. Book well ahead or come the week after. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Cherry blossom (28 Mar – 12 Nis (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Golden Week, Japonya genelinde Golden Week

Mayıs ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Golden Week (29 Nis – 6 May)

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Doğa

  Lotus at the Nishinokyo temples

  15 Haz – 5 Ağu · geneldeKır çiçekleri ve çiçeklenme

  Kikoji, Toshodaiji, Yakushiji and Saidaiji fill their courtyards with potted lotus in early summer and sell a joint ticket; go in the morning, when the flowers are open and before the heat. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Saikusa Matsuri (Lily Festival)

  16–17 HazDini bayram

  At Isagawa, the city's oldest shrine, shrine maidens dance holding lilies brought from Mount Miwa on 17 June, and a procession of women in Heian costume walks through central Nara in the afternoon. Kaynak ↗

Kalabalık — Japonya genelinde Summer break (natsuyasumi), burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

Temmuz ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lotus at the Nishinokyo temples (15 Haz – 5 Ağu (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — Kasuga Mantoro, Japonya genelinde Summer break (natsuyasumi)

• Risk

  Typhoon season

  1 Ağu – 10 Eki · geneldeKapanışlar

  Kansai takes a direct hit every few years. Temples and the Kasuga forest paths close, Kintetsu and JR trains from Kyoto and Osaka stop for the day, and Kansai airport can shut, as it did for Jebi in 2018. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Kasuga Mantoro

  14–15 AğuIşık ve ateşKalabalık

  Three thousand lanterns lit along the stone approach and through the shrine on the two nights of Obon. The same thing happens again at Setsubun in February. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Lotus at the Nishinokyo temples (15 Haz – 5 Ağu (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Eylül ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Typhoon season (1 Ağu – 10 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — Shosoin treasures exhibition, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

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  Shosoin treasures exhibition

  25 Eki – 15 Kas · geneldeSanat festivaliKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  A few dozen objects from the eighth-century imperial storehouse go on show at the Nara National Museum for about a fortnight each autumn, and never the same ones twice. Timed tickets. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Typhoon season (1 Ağu – 10 Eki (genelde))

Kalabalık — Shosoin treasures exhibition

• Doğa

  Autumn colour

  5 Kas – 5 Ara · genelde

  Nara Park turns later than Kyoto and takes a fraction of the crowd. Kasugayama's primeval forest behind the shrine is the walk to do while it happens.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Shosoin treasures exhibition (25 Eki – 15 Kas (genelde))

Kalabalık — Japonya genelinde Winter break (fuyuyasumi), burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

Aralık ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Autumn colour (5 Kas – 5 Ara (genelde))