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The Three Mountains of Yamato and an Unseen City Plan

The Three Mountains of Yamato are read as a sacred boundary guarding Fujiwara-kyo, and travelers walk across an ancient city plan.

2026.02Nara Prefecture, Central and Southern Nara

課題Issue

Visitors concentrate in northern Nara City, leaving the sites and tombs of central and southern Nara as scattered, overlooked points.

視点Approach

Fujiwara-kyo sits inside the isosceles triangle the three mountains form, and folding that triangle eastward leads to Mount Miwa.

施策Proposals

  • A walking route inside the triangle from Mount Unebi to Mount Miminashi
  • Viewpoints for seeing how the three mountains are arranged
  • An extended route from Fujiwara-kyo to Mount Miwa
All plans

The Three Mountains of Yamato and an Unseen City Plan(Central and Southern Nara・Nara)

The Three Mountains of Yamato are read as a sacred boundary guarding Fujiwara-kyo, and travelers walk across an ancient city plan.

Issue
Visitors concentrate in northern Nara City, leaving the sites and tombs of central and southern Nara as scattered, overlooked points.
Approach
Fujiwara-kyo sits inside the isosceles triangle the three mountains form, and folding that triangle eastward leads to Mount Miwa.
Proposals
A walking route inside the triangle from Mount Unebi to Mount Miminashi; Viewpoints for seeing how the three mountains are arranged; An extended route from Fujiwara-kyo to Mount Miwa

Question: how to bring visitors to southern nara asuka tourism plan

Toward Nara Prefecture's challenge of drawing visitors to central and southern Nara, Takahiro Mitsui (三井崇央), representative of JIHAN JINKO, wrote plans from three angles. Each turns unseen history into an experience that can be confirmed on foot.

The first reads the three mountains of Yamato as the sacred boundary of the Fujiwara capital, with a route inside the triangle and an extension to Mount Miwa, and writes in a development into an app or website linked to the map. The second, "Sanctuary of the Queen", walks Makimuku and Hashihaka, a candidate site for Yamatai, and Ōmiwa Shrine, with a story-style guide made with museums. The third, "Asuka, Capital of Food", takes the US Dietary Guidelines 2025-2030 as an opening: inns, restaurants and farms serving the morning's vegetables as one, a multilingual "Asuka Real Food Map", and a stay programme for long-stay visitors. They meet the Basic Plan's use of cultural resources and food for tourism, and its push for higher value.

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