Nara locates East of Osaka city and South of Kyoto city. It take app. 1 hour from both cities by public transportation.
You can explore Nara as a day trip with a professional friendly guide.
Nara is ancient capital city before Kyoto. There are a lot to see!! Especially, around Nara Park.
You could see very friendly (and hungry) free-roaming deer, amazingly huge Buddha Statue, very old shrine wiz 3000 lanterns, and second tallest five-storied pagoda. Since this tour is private, if you have any request, it is possible to customize the itinerary.
