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Walks in Ohara.

One walking route through Ohara — a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk — plus nearby routes for the same morning.

A moss garden among cedars, a nunnery with a sad story, and shibazuke pickles.

Nearby

Other walks close to Ohara.

Sorted by distance from the start of ohara: the northern mountain village. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Up the cedar slope to Kurama-dera, over the ridge, down to the river-terrace restaurants.

An imperial villa on the hillside, Manshu-in's rock garden, and quiet temple lanes.

One of Kyoto's oldest shrines, a stream-side village of priests' houses, and almost no one else.

The canal-side path under the blossom, from the Silver Pavilion down to the great Zen gate.