Yamada-dera, Kashihara
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Facts and practical information
Yamada-dera was a Buddhist temple established in the Asuka period in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The area has been designated a Special Historic Site and forms part of a grouping of sites submitted in 2007 for future inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List: Asuka-Fujiwara: Archaeological sites of Japan’s Ancient Capitals and Related Properties. Excavations in the 1980s uncovered a well-preserved section of the temple's covered corridors that predate the surviving buildings of Hōryū-ji: "for the history of Japanese architecture, this discovery is of as great moment as the finding of the seventh-century Takamatsuzuka tomb paintings in March 1972 was for the history of Japanese art." ()
Kashihara
Yamada-dera – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Mount Amanokagu, Asuka-dera, Nara Prefecture Complex of Man'yo Culture, Tachibana-dera.