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Where to stay in Nara

奈良 · Nara · measured from Nara station (34.6808, 135.8189)

How Nara compares with the 30 areas we measure

WhatWithin 800 mRankMedian
Train station121 of 303
Bus stop2320 of 3025
Convenience store1420 of 3027
Places to eat28824 of 30898
Cafe5324 of 30154
Supermarket614 of 306
Pharmacy / drugstore2020 of 3038
ATMs that take foreign cards1621 of 3031
Bars and nightlife6422 of 30193
Things to see1125 of 3038
Park or garden921 of 3015
Police box (koban)222 of 304
Coin lockers413 of 303

Counted within 800 m of the point above — about a ten minute walk — with duplicates folded, exactly as the report below counts them. The median is the middle of the 30 areas measured here, which is what makes a count mean anything: whether 27 convenience stores is a lot depends on where else you could have stayed. Categories our sources cover unevenly are left out of this table and appear in the report below, labelled as not counted.

85/100
Almost everything within a walk
Access 72Daily 56Eating 39Sights 66Nightlife 40

Somewhere you leave in the morning. Buses count as much as trains — most of what people come to Japan to see is not on a railway line.

  • Train stationNara · 1 min
  • Convenience store39 m
  • Places to eat288 found

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What is actually within a 10 minute walk

Straight-line distance from the building, measured against OpenStreetMap. Walking times use 80 m per minute, the convention used by Japanese property listings. Only about four in ten places in Japan have an English name in OpenStreetMap, so some names below appear in Japanese — still useful for showing to a taxi driver or matching a shopfront.

Getting around

Bus stop

23 found

Where there is no train, this is the way out. Stops on both sides of one road are counted once.

  • JR Nara Station West Entrance JR奈良駅西口1 min · 39 m
  • JR Nara Station 6 JR奈良駅 61 min · 62 m

Train station

1 found

Everything else you do in a day starts here.

  • Nara 奈良1 min · 0 m

Daily needs

the hotel can’t do these for you

Convenience store

14 found

Open late, sells water, food, and usually has an ATM that takes foreign cards.

  • 7-Eleven セブン-イレブン1 min · 39 m
  • Lawson ローソン1 min · 102 m

Pharmacy / drugstore

not in this reading20 found

Getting ill is the thing most likely to ruin a trip.

  • Ueru Shia Nara Station Zenten (chouzai Pharmacy ) ウエルシア奈良駅前店 (調剤薬局)2 min · 183 m
  • Welcia Ueru Shia Welcia ウエルシア2 min · 195 m

Supermarket

not in this reading6 found

Matters once you are staying more than a few nights.

  • KOHYO コーヨー1 min · 46 m
  • Nakamuraya 中村屋3 min · 255 m

ATMs that take foreign cards

not in this reading16 found

Seven Bank, Lawson Bank, E-net, Aeon and Japan Post accept cards issued outside Japan. Most other Japanese bank ATMs decline them, so they are not counted here. Post offices are counted, because that is where most Japan Post machines are.

  • Aeon Bank イオン銀行1 min · 17 m
  • Seven Bank セブン銀行1 min · 108 m

Eating

Places to eat

288 found

Restaurants and fast food. Cafes are not counted — most close before dinner.

  • U Memori JR Nara Branch うめもりJR奈良店1 min · 11 m
  • Kotoka 古都華1 min · 19 m
  • Yamazakiya JR Nara Branch 山崎屋 JR奈良店1 min · 22 m

Cafe

not in this reading53 found

Somewhere to sit in the morning that is not your room.

  • Robii Raunji Faunten ロビーラウンジ ファウンテン1 min · 26 m
  • nanairo 1 min · 109 m

Things to see

Things to see

11 found

Attractions, museums, viewpoints, castles and monuments. Ordinary neighbourhood shrines are not counted — Japan has tens of thousands, and counting them would make every street look remarkable.

  • Heijou Kyou Taikyokudono Ato 平城京太極殿跡2 min · 175 m
  • Entrance to Emperor Kaika Grave 開花天皇陵入口6 min · 518 m
  • Emperor Kaika’s Kasuga-no-Izakawa-no-Sakanoe-no-Misasagi Tomb 開化天皇 春日率川坂上陵7 min · 556 m

Public bath / onsen

1 found

Often the reason for the trip rather than a convenience.

  • Shikishima Onsen 敷島温泉5 min · 382 m

Park or garden

9 found

Somewhere to walk that is not a shopping street.

  • Bodai Kawa Park 菩提川公園3 min · 235 m
  • Park 3 min · 265 m

Souvenir shops

not scored4 found

Shown for information only. About 3,000 are mapped for the whole country against many times that in reality, so a hit here is worth something and a miss means nothing.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

  • Nara Meihinkan 奈良銘品館1 min · 11 m
  • Omiyage Nara Miyakoji おみやげ奈良みやこ路1 min · 57 m

At night

material, not a verdict

Bars and nightlife

not in this reading64 found

Counted as a plus here. A property tool would count the same places as a minus.

  • Old Time 1 min · 81 m
  • Shiki Yuujin 四季遊人2 min · 176 m

Police box (koban)

not in this reading2 found

Staffed neighbourhood police posts. The default place to go if something goes wrong.

  • Nara Keisatsusho Nara Station Mae Koban 奈良警察署 奈良駅前交番2 min · 150 m
  • Nara Police Station 奈良警察署7 min · 568 m

Currency exchange

not scored0 found

Shown for information only. 197 exchange counters are mapped for the whole country, far fewer than exist, so they are never scored. If you have a card, the ATM count above is the more reliable answer.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

None found within 800 m.

Post office

not in this reading4 found

Sends things home, and holds a Japan Post ATM that takes foreign cards — away from the cities this is often the only one within walking distance. Sub-post offices (簡易郵便局) frequently have no machine, so they are listed here but not counted as ATMs.

  • Nara San Jou Post Office 奈良三条郵便局2 min · 150 m
  • Nara Central Post Office 奈良中央郵便局8 min · 630 m

Coin lockers

not in this reading4 found

For the hours before check-in and after check-out.

  • Packcity Japan PUDOステーション3 min · 201 m
  • PUDO Ueru Shia Nara Station Mae Branch ＰＵＤＯ　ウエルシア奈良駅前店3 min · 251 m

Laundromat

not scored2 found

Needed once a trip runs past a week.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

  • Ko Inn Randorii Sere Park Nara Oomiya Branch コインランドリー セレパーク奈良大宮店2 min · 141 m
  • Sanjō Coin Laundry コインランドリー三条5 min · 361 m

Before you arrive

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What this score does not include These data sets are not part of the number above. A blank here means “not checked”, never “nothing found”.
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Scored 2026-09-11 21:24 UTC against our OpenStreetMap import · preset: sightseeing

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