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Kasuga-yama Hill Primeval Forest
春日山原始林 Kasuga-yama Genshirin
 Street address: Kasugayama, Kasugano-cho, Nara-shi, Nara-ken 630-8212, Japan
Telephone: 81 (0) 742 22 0375
E-mail: hisyo@city.nara.nara.jp
Proprietor: Nara City Government - one of numerous sites which collectively comprise the Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara World Heritage Site
Contact: Director
 For more than 1,000 years, since 841, when the status of the sacred Mount Mifuta was officially recognised, logging and hunting have been banned and Kasuga-yama - the forest adjacent to the Kasuga Grand Shrine - has been preserved as an untapped, primeval forest. This means that the forest is untouched by human hand and remains, even now, a valuable repository of nature. As the forest reflects the Japanese practice of nature-worship (pantheism), Kasugayama Primeval Forest was designated a Cultural rather than a Natural Heritage Site. |
