Kasuga Taisha Shrine

photo by Guilhem Vellut · CC BY 2.0

photo by Yanajin33 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Three thousand lanterns stay unlit all year and are lit on two evenings: 14 and 15 August.

Along the climb and under the eaves of the shrine, two thousand stone lanterns and a thousand bronze ones stand and hang, and it is normal to find them unlit: they are all lit together only on the evenings of 14 and 15 August, from seven to half past nine. Anyone who comes on another day sees them as they are for the rest of the year: rows of grey stone, covered in moss.

Tōdai-ji is a kilometre and a half away, in the same Nara Park.

ℹ️ The inner grounds have opening hours and a ticket; the approach avenue does not.

🚉 Kintetsu Nara · 22 min walk

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The second Nara stop of the school trip: the avenue of stone lanterns beneath the cedar forest.

photo by Guilhem Vellut · CC BY 2.0

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