Nara
Where Ancient Nara Meets Mountain Spring
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FUFU Nara extends the KPG Luxury brand's consistent philosophy — suite-format accommodations, onsen as the central experiential proposition, nature immersion — into one of Japan's most culturally charged landscapes. Nara prefecture extends well beyond the temple-and-deer-park circuit of Nara City itself: Yoshino's mountainside cherry blossoms, the Kumano pilgrimage routes through the Kii peninsula's ancient forests, and the rural landscapes of the Yamato region provide a natural environment of considerable depth around the historical core.
The FUFU brand's architecture of hospitality positions the thermal bath as the moment around which the guest's day is organized: arrival in the afternoon, the bath, the evening meal, the morning bath, breakfast, departure. This rhythm — unchanged in its essentials from how Japanese inn culture has operated for centuries — acquires particular resonance in Nara, a city that understands better than most the value of continuity and the persistence of beautiful things across time.
Suite-style accommodations maintain the privacy and spatial generosity that the FUFU brand applies across its portfolio, ensuring that guests have both the comfort and the independence to engage the property at their own pace. Dining draws on the culinary traditions of Nara and the Yamato region, including the prefecture's celebrated somen noodles, Yoshino's kuzu (arrowroot) preparations, and the seasonal vegetables of the highland interior.
For travelers who want to extend their Nara experience beyond the temple circuit into the landscape and cultural depth of the broader prefecture — and to do so with the restorative comfort of natural onsen — FUFU Nara provides a base that the city's standard accommodation options do not offer.
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