Nara: A temple, located near Nara, Japan, said to have been built at the end of the 6th century… Contains the oldest existing wooden structure in the world, a five-storied pagoda…
to: A type of Japanese pagoda of two (taho-to), three (sanju-no-to), five (goju-no-to), or seven (nana-ju-no-to) stories which enshrines Buddhist holy relics. In Japan these are usually square, but the taho-to differs in that it has a stupa-like round protuberance above the lower squareroof which, in turn, carries a cylindrical railed section crowned by a squareroofbearing a sorin (as do all other multistoried pagodas).
pagoda: A temple or sacredbuilding, typically in an Asian nation, usually pyramidal, forming a tower with upward curving roofs over the individual stories.