Nara Deer Park

Dear Nara Park Curators,

In addition to selling deer biscuits at the entry to the deer park, can you please also provide tasers for those who don't appreciate being headbutted by numerous deer as they attempt to elicit food.

Thanks,

Andrew.


As you can probably notice, I'm not the worlds biggest deer fan. …

The day in Nara was pretty much spoiled by an endless rain. It started raining in the morning, when we were in Kyoto and it didn't stop until the end of the day. As a result, all our photo gear was wet, my travel book suffered water damage and ended up with warped pages and we were generally wet and miserable most of the time.

Upon arrival …

... places. Its high on the tourist lists, but not as popular as Kyoto.  I used to go and teach there a lot and go out early and wander around. It always reminded me of the Blue Mountains in Sydney, aside from the Deer Park and giant ...

... much more character I think than Kyoto even though it is significantly smaller. We hit up two temples and one shrine in the Nara "Deer Park". What a lovely place. The deer just cruise around unafraid of the people. You can pet them. The rack on the boys ...

... late morning that I had seen enough temples and shrines for a while, and I just did a lot of sitting around in the deer park, taking naps, reading, and watching japanese people get chased by hungry deer. It was a scene that occurred over and over, but ...

... all over Japan. And I love it! After our first nights stay in the beautiful guesthouse we walked up to the deer park, stopping off to get some dougnuts for breakfast and instantly found ourselves surrounded by ancient Japan. We took at look at ...

... guesthouse, wooden structure, heated floors, no shoes only slippers indoors after wandering round and getting some food in the much more tranquil town of Nara.I love Japan! Tomorrow, deer park...can't wait! a very peaceful, Claire x ...

... rutting season. There is a ceremony held to cut off the deer's horns in October. http://www.galenfrysinger.com/deer_park_nara_japan.htm Our nest stop was the Kasuga Shrine, a Shinto shrine. There were 3000 antique stone lanterns ...

... really beautiful and a symbol of Nara. From there we walked for another 25 minutes through peaceful parks and busy streets to the deer park. Jo and I bought some souvenirs, and some deer biscuits for 150yen, and got mobbed by friendly (but hungry) deer! ...

... train station and put them in lockers and went off sight seeing. We walked back along the main street and into the park known as deer park. We went to the Todau-ji temple (larges wooden structure in the world) that houses the Daibutsu (great buddah). ...

... 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 Daibutsudan Hall (Great ...

... rattler train for the 40 minute journey to Nara. Rain all the way. We had originally planned to walk from the JR Nara station up to the deer park and Todaiji temple, however a bus pulling up offering a dry 200 yen lift to exactly where we needed to go ...