Hotel New Wakasa Nara
1 Kitahanda Higashi-machi Nara, Nara, Kinki, 630-8274, Japan
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Day 16: Nara. Rain, and so many damn deers
... some breakfast. The usual fare: rice balls, sausages, egg, bread rolls, miso soup, potato salad and coffee. Still free. Still good.
The weather forecast for both Nagoya and Nara was overcast with a chance of showers. It seems that by "chance" they mean't "certainty", and by "showers" they mean't "never ending deluge". Still, today was the day we had put aside to go to Nara, and since Nagoya didn't have anything that we overly wanted to ...
Last day in Japan
... Inside it is the largest indoor budda statue and although it wasnt as tall as the giant budda in thailand (i think i may be a budda statue conneseour it was deffinatly biggest by volume. Think i might have got heat stroke its so hot today then we left it at that for temples and religious stuff for the rest of the trip now. Just going for shopping and beaches as there so little time left. Get the violins out. Anyway after that we went to a ...
What NOT to do....
... all in them. No time for coffee though, the starbucks is too far away to make a detour for. Once in Nara I needed to find a bicycle rental place. Looking all around, but nowhere in sight :-( Off to the information desk then. "Rental bikes? Sure, just walk about 75 meters the opposite way, and there you will find it!" Guess I really need that coffee in the morning to function properly... Once on the bike it was only a 15 minute ride to get to Todaji temple. ...
Nara : Fushila, Park, Museum, Deer, Osaka Arrival
... and noodle soup. Also found some bakeries which taste amazing and only about $2 for most items. Not sure why koreans seem to hate bread so much?
Took the train back down to Osaka. This JR pass is truly amazing. As mentioned, not only is it like a Via rail and GO train combo, but in big cities like tokyo and ...



