This web page guides you on a tour of the nature, history and culture of Nara. The old Japanese word soramitsu was used in classical Japanese poetry as an epithet for Yamato, the old name of the Nara region. Accordingly, this tour uses a satellite image as an index and aerial photos in explanations of the various things you'll discover.
Index image Click the red dots to read the various descriptions.
Clicking the blue dots leads you to the ground views. You can also choose descriptions by time by selecting the following periods. Processed and visualized by Noboru Ogata . Land use categories shown in colors are as follows. The contributors to the Soramitsu Project are current and past faculty members and graduate students of Nara Women's University.