Todaiji Temple Nara

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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