Kansai Travel|Nara Japan's earliest temple: Asuka Temple

|Nara Japan's earliest temple: Asuka Temple. Asuka is 'Asuka' is 'Asuka' Nara Prefecture's Kashihara City Asuka is 1400 years ago, equivalent to China's Northern and Southern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties, when Japan fully learned Sui and Tang culture, the capital of the 'Asuka era', and also the first stop of Buddhism's eastward journey, the earliest temple, earlier than Kyoto and Nara. Now this place does not have the hustle and bustle of the past, only rural fields, Asuka Temple later moved to Nara as 'Gangoji Temple', this place is the original site, retaining Japan's earliest seventh-century Buddha statue, after several burnings, only the face and hands are original. There are also many ruins in the village: Asuka Ruins, 'Tachibana Temple', 'Hirofuku Temple', Imperial Mausoleum, Observation Deck, etc.