Kofukuji Temple Nara

Woke up to another beautiful day.

Straight over to JR Osaka Station to activate our JR passes. End up booking three of our Shinkansen trips. Two are on a long weekend and without reserved seats we might have ended up in trouble.

We decide to got to Nara and visit the deer. Get directions to the train to Nara and they come with an …

Bit of a change from Nikko to Nara - scenery more urbanised in the old capital. The city is rich with history - temples were built around 700AD during the Nara period. Unfortunately, most were destroyed by fire and rebuilt later. If it wasn't fire, it was rennovation with the Kofukuji main hall being rennovated for the next 8 years. Todaiji was the …

Breakfast at the hotel in Osaka included water, croissant, noodles with mayo (like a pasta salad), and an iceberg lettuce salad. Odd. Terry noticed that most people around us put mayo on everything. It is like their ketchup. Anyway, then we got to the station, and after a slight train confusion, we were on our way to Nara. We went to the info desk …

... a lantern festival. There are many shrines in this area of the park worth checking out.   From there we headed to Kofukuji Temple only a short ride away it is another World Heritage site, in the same area is the five story pogoda which is ...

... on this later.   We headed down Sanjodori St to visit the three storied & five storied Pagoda's, along with Kofukuji Temple (undergoing renovations). The three storey pagoda dates from 1143 and the five storey from 1426. This one is the ...

... easy to do in a day and you can walk around all the main sights, which are...you guessed it...temples! I went to Kofukuji Temple, Todaiji Temple, the Great Bell, Nigatsu-do-Hall and Kasuga Taisha Shrine. In Kyoto and Nara there have been school kids ...

... good English) where they gave us a map and a good route to take. 15 minutes of walking through the streets of Nara found us at the Kofukuji Temple, built all the way back in 710! It has three- and five-story pagodas, which were really beautiful and a ...

... and that we should bring umbrellas. We brought two. For four people. Foreshadowing... Nara Park had all of Nara's attractions in it. We first went to Kofukuji Temple. We saw the 5 storied pagoda, the Southern Octagonal Hall, and the temple. Well, maybe ...

... I can only describe as a substance that tasted like a candy version of baked beans.  After the sample session we entered Kofukuji temple which sat at the base of a large mountain the was the center of all of Nara's sites. Midori ...

... from tourists, or just lazying around.  It's so beautiful and serene; I really enjoyed walking around town today. I went to Kofukuji Temple first, which is a very pretty five-story pagoda within the Nara City Park limits.  It was here that I ...

... to hard to find! Pretty soon I could see them so I knew I was heading in the right direction. I also found the Kofukuji Temple and the Nara National Museum, which meant the Tenoi-ji Temple would be just around the corner. The Tenoi-ji Temple is where the ...

... Todaiji, Kasuga Taisha, Kofukuji and the Nara National Museum. The first spot that we passed was the 5 storied pagoda then Kofukuji Temple and most importantly we met lots of deer. Surprisingly, the deer here are very friendly and we can even ...

We also enjoyed our day trip to Nara.  We visited Kofukuji Temple (founded in 710), the Nara National Musuem, Isuien and Yoshikien Gardens, Nara Deer Park (where we bought food and fed the hundreds of deer roaming around), Todaiji Temple, and ...