Walk the oldest wooden buildings
Nara · Horyu-ji
Only in Kansai
152 unique things to do. 466 in total
Cities inside Kansai
152 unique things across 6 cities
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Feed, and be bowed to by, a wild herd that is a national natural monument
Nara · Nara Park · Free
Stand under the Omizutori torches at Nigatsudō
Nara · Nigatsu-do · Free · Seasonal
Make noodles where they began
Osaka · Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda · Free
Walk past 1,001 Kannon
Kyoto · Sanjusangendo
Hear an android preach
Kyoto · Kodaiji Temple
Climb inside the Tower of the Sun
Osaka · Tower of the Sun
The only one on Earth
Sleep in Nintendo's original 1930 head office
Kyoto · Marufukuro
The only one on Earth
The only one on Earth
Watch the stags' antlers sawn off in a ring, the way it has been done since the 1670s
Nara · Rokuen · Seasonal
Eat takoyaki without sauce at the shop that named it
Osaka · Aizuya
Order one zenzai and receive two bowls, then splash the moss-covered Fudō
Osaka · Meoto Zenzai
See bunraku in the city where it was born
Osaka · National Bunraku Theatre
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See Emperor Shōmu's possessions in the Shōsōin's two-week window
Nara · Nara National Museum · Seasonal
Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi
Osaka · Sumiyoshi Taisha
Eat at the world's oldest sweet shop
Kyoto · Ichiwa
See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people
Osaka · Isshin-ji Temple · Free
Hear a horn summon wild deer
Nara · Tobihino · Free · Seasonal
Play at the Nintendo Museum
Uji · Nintendo Museum
Stand in a giant fire character
Kyoto · Mount Daimonji · Free
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Eat fried maple leaves on the waterfall path at Minoh
Osaka · Hisakuni Kosendo
Sit in the last Lockheed monorail
Himeji · Tegarayama Kōryū Station · Free
Swing the longest monkey bars
Kobe · Sunshine Wharf Kobe · Free
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See Osaka's own ukiyo-e, the actor prints Edo never made
Osaka · Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum
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