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Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) · CC BY 2.0The essential hotels of Nara, Japan — ranked, reviewed, and filterable by price, neighborhood and style.
Nara rewards staying overnight — the deer park empties at dusk and the temples glow. This guide ranks the 10 stays worth booking: a Small Luxury Hotels splurge on the park's edge, a 9.6-rated ryokan with deer at the door, the historic 1909 Nara Hotel, a pagoda-view onsen ryokan, and honest budget picks from $20.