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Travel Blogs from Nara, Japan
Nara Tag 2
... 3000 Laternen entzündet, was sicherlich ein sehenswerterAnblick ist. Nur schade, dass es nicht stattfindet währenddem ich in Japan bin. Direkt nebenan steht der Wakamiya Schrein. Dieser ist etwas kleiner Schrein, aber durchaus auch schön anzusehen. ...
Deer Spit
... though because every hundred years or so it seemed like a fire or earthquake would knock everything down.The largest national park in Japan is in Nara, so we rode our bikes there. It took about 10 minutes and considering how narrow the streets are, ...
Arigato Sawa!
Today on the menu: another wonderful day-trip, this time to Nara - Japan's old capital, home to the biggest number of national treasures, as well as to the biggest wooden temple in the whole world, to a huge buddha inside this temple, to my first tiramisu ...
Last day in Japan
Cant believe its the last day in Japan and we are leaving for the airport in about an hour. We are have been staying in Osaka about 2 mins walk away from the red light district at this hostel that basically tried to make us sleep on the floor and when we ...
'ello Nara
... a bit of background on Nara so that we knew what we had to look forward to and read that Nara was the first permanent capital city of Japan and had 8 Unesco world heritage sites to wander around with the highlight being the Diabutsu or Great ...
Canals, the flu and electric baths ...
... . So after making it over the Tateyama-Kurobe alpine route (with my pack -- hurrah!) I headed to a city on the Sea of Japan called Kanazawa. I think this is my favorite city to date. I stayed at a really funky little youth hostel on one of the narrow ...
Deer Food
Another day, another train, Japan by this point is starting to seem like one huge long train journey (with many complicated changes at badly laid out stations!). It was on my way to Nara that I met a Japanese lady. She was very excited to be sitting next ...
What NOT to do....
... to make the authorities a bit nervous. But more on that later... This morning it would be a visit to Nara, to see the largest buddha in all of Japan. Originally I was going to leave around 8am, but I actually managed to unconsciously switch off my ...
Spring has arrived in Nara
... . Nobody apart from us paid any attention to this strange sight, so maybe it’s quite a normal animal to take for a walk in Japan. The young girl that owned it was more than happy to have her photo taken, and she even offered Ruth the chance to hold ...
Nara The Beautiful! The Deers Are Ugly Though!
... shane Accommodation: Nara - Ken Seishonen Youth Hostel 7Ikenoue Handa, Hiraki - Chu NARA JAPAN ____________________________________________________ The soundtrack to this entry was by a band I'm sure everyone ...
Feet Burning N the Totaiji Temples O-Mizutori Fest
... NARA JAPAN _________________________________________________ The soundtrack to this entry was DJ Seb Fontaine The album was 'Prototype 4' ...
Buddhist Pilgrimage to 33-temples in 10-days
... ; Many of the cemeteries in Japan are associated with Buddhist temples, and the historically known practices of ancestor worship in Japan are adaptations of Chinese customs (Confucianism). Even today, my wife keeps a "butsudan" (Buddhist alter for the ...
Safety packing
Scan your your emergency contact telephone numbers for you to contact if you lose your ATM card or credit card or have them stolen, photos from your passport, passport and paper tickets (if not the electronic type), and save the photos at your web based ...
Temples
We took the local train to Nara and spent another lovely day looking at temples. We saw about five and am all templed out! The Park was really lovely and there were thousands of deer scattered around the place. So cute! When we returned to Kyoto, Chris ...
Osaka-Nara-Hiroshima - back to our Japanese home
... ; four maintenance men stopped what they were doing to bow to the departing plane and passengers. We never did get to Nara when we lived in Japan so this was a good opportunity. It was the ancient capital of Japan from 710 – 794, at the ...
more deer
We arrived in Nara in the middle of the afternoon and headed towards our Ryokan to check in drop off our bags and head out for a bite to eat, there was a 1030 curfew in the place we were staying. The ryokan we were staying in was super cute, we checked ...
Nara: home of the Daibutsu, and great Ramen
... . Yum! So, after that they decided to cart me along to go see the Daibutsu..the famous giant Buddha that is the biggest in Japan! We parked in a lot near the Todai-ji temple koen (park) and walked down the hill through the freezing cold and, sure ...
The Bowing Deer of Nara
... on breakfast while the train took us on our brief detour to Nara where we would only spend a couple hours. Upon arriving in Nara, we found a taxi driver and Uncle Gary pointed in his guidebook to "Daibutsu-den", the Hall of the Great Buddha where we ...
Nara, Ancient Capital
... during our vacation. Souvenir shops are always on top of the list. ;-) Todaiji is a landmark of Nara and one of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples. Was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all ...
Nara - Kyoto - Nagoya
Today was more like temples tour: 3 places, 3 cities, in a day. We visited Todaiji temple at Nara prefecture, Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto, and Fujimiinari shrine in Nagoya. Lunch: Ramen at Kyoto Station Dinner: BBQ buffet in Nagoya ...
Ipod Stealing Deer, Best Invention Ever
... -scissors). I win and we head up. Never give up elevation lightly. We pass a house and a vending machine (Japan has them everywhere.) We believe that we have somehow left the shrine. We need another little gravel path jut up ...