Nara Hotels - Reviews and Rates

A short train ride to Nara... I'm only here for one day, to make the best of it there is a lp Walking Tour - of course! - of Nara-koen park. It is home to 1,200 deer and more temples and shrines. First temple was Kofuku-ji where I stopped to have my lunch. I bought some of the great hot fried convenience food from 7-Eleven and had a jumbo-sized ...

It was at 5 in the morning that I took the first train from Shin-Tanabe to Kyoto. I headed for my guesthouse as soon as I got to Kyoto to catch some sleep. It is comparatively safer to rough-sleep in Japan than other countries and I had experienced rough sleeps many times, but it would have been avoidable this time if I had been more careful. An...

In Japan, Setsubun is the first day of spring according to the old Japanese calendar (lunar calendar). On this day, there is a custom throughout Japan of throwing roasted soybeans while chanting "In with Fortune! Out with Evil" in order to prevent evil ogres from entering one's house. It is commonly believed in Japan that the ogres are warded of...

Yesterday I went to Nara with Andy, from Denmark, and Hend, from Egypt. It's a huge tourist attraction due to it's over 1000 year history. It also has the largest buddha statue in Japan. The rest of my explanation will be contained in the descriptions of the photos.

This morning I asked one of our hotel hosts to help me book accommodation in Hiroshima. He was so helpful I gave him a mug from Australia. Ooh. I found a sign that said "no anime, no life". I guess they have a different outlook on geeks here. We took a 40min train straight from Shinimamiya to Nara. Nara really is beautiful. I get the feeling it ...