A Day at Nara

I had a wonderful day at Nara Park. Nara used to be the captal of Japan and it had lots of temples and older, incredibly huge buildings. It also had the most tame and aggessive deer I have ever seen. Here I feed one of them.

This is Todaiji Temple, which holds a 53 foot bronze statue of Buddha. The main building is the largest wooden structure. It is hard to give you a grasp in a picture of how big it is.

The day of sightseeing would not be complete without a good pond.

I found a path that went up and continued on the hike for a long way. It was beautiful on top of the mountain. At the peak I met a man from Pleasanton, it is a small world.

The Japanese people are very helpful with the directions. I had to ask a number of times for directions at the train stations but they all went out of their way to be helpful, even if the English was a huge challenge.