This is a nice hike behind Nara park, and ends at the handsome Hotokuji temple in the town of Yagyu. You can also hike part of the way and return from Enjoji. From Kintetsu Nara, take a bus towards Shin Yakushiji and get off before the Nara Woman’s College. Walk east through some neighborhoods until you enter the woods and begin climbing behind Nara park. The route weaves in and out of trails and small roads and passes tea plantations, sake shops, and stone carvings before arriving at the temple. Hop on a bus to return to Kin Nara station. There have been reported sightings of monkeys in these parts, although farmers insist that they only come into civilization when people are not around, in order to steal food.
http://www.pref.nara.jp/nara/kaido/kokaido/eg/yagyu.htm
