NARA NATIONAL MUSEUM

Entrance to Lower Level Passageway

The 150m-long passageway was built in 1997, and it connects the Nara Buddhist Sculpture Hall, the New East Wing and the West New Wing. The passageway is open to the public. It is accessible not only from the Nara Buddhist Sculpture Hall or the New Wings, but directly from outside of the museum buildings.
There is a museum shop and a restaurant in the lower level passageway. The museum shop sells original goods of the museum as well as a large collection of history and art related books.
The open space near the Nara Buddhist Sculpture Hall is displayed with models of Buddha statues and photo panels introducing Buddhist art more friendly to the visitors.

Photograph panels of restored cultural properties: Lower level passageway
Painting : Important cultural property The 49 Descents of Amitabha, colors on silk (Shijuku Kebutsu Amida Raigō-zu), Kōmyō-ji temple, Kyoto.
Sculpture : Important cultural property. A figure of Dhrtarastra (J. Jikokuten), wood, (handed down from Uchiyama Eikyu-ji), Tōdaiji Temple, Nara.
Sculpture : National treasure Tweezer-Shaped Sword (J. Kenukigata Tachi), from the collection of Wakamiya Goryō Koshinpō; Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Nara.

Panel display: Lower level passageway
X-ray and infrared photos of the national treasure Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara (J. Juichimen Kannon-zō), collection of the Nara National Museum.