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Nara
street leading from the train station to nara park
Nara Park is home to hundreds of freely roaming Sika deer. These deers are messengers of the gods in Shinto and is a symbol of the city. We bought a few packets of the deer biscuits and lots of deers followed us around, asking for more food. Although the deers were generally gentle, the bigger ones can get a wee bit rough when they get a whiff of the biscuits. We had deers nudging us and a couple even putting their snouts into our jackets! Such greedy deers.
Beware of angry deers!
Todai-ji Temple is a Unesco World Heritage site. It is the world's largest wooden building and houses Japan's largest Buddha. Since we were pressed for time, we did not go inside and just peered through the gates to get our shots of the temple.
Sketching Todai-ji temple
Another main attraction in Nara is Kofuku-ji Temple, a five storey pagoda. Unfortunately, we did not have a good stand-alone shot of the temple.
As usual we spent time in the shops, oogling at the local tidbits. Persimmons were in season and we bought some nice preserved persimmons in a bamboo case and more mochi. On hindsight, Co regretted not getting the samurai sword as a keepsake.
Overall, Nara is a recommended day trip from Kyoto and we enjoyed ourselves immensely.
