It had been a while since I last made it out to Nara. Well… as everyone knows by now, this is the town of “shika no ko no ko no ko koshitantan” — that deer-anime earworm — so there isn’t much left for me to explain.
Deer crackers
You have to buy a pack of these.
Hold a cracker up and the deer come to you all on their own.
If deer scare you, keep the crackers out of sight. Consider yourself warned.
The park
The park
The entrance to Todaiji
A Nio guardian statue
Seeing this makes me think of GANTZ…
The entrance
You have to walk quite a way in from here.
Todaiji
The Great Buddha
Seeing the real thing in person, it is genuinely imposing.
The small Great Buddha
Small, they say… but plenty big.
Komokuten, one of the Four Heavenly Kings
A scale model
From behind
It had been a long time, but it is still a good time. If you have come as far as Kyoto, Nara is worth a stop.
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