For our first full day in Japan we departed from our hotel in Osaka and took the train about 45 minutes north to Kyoto. We are staying two nights in a traditional Japanesse inn called a ryokan. After dropping off our bags, we headed back to the station to catch the train to Nara, the first semi-permanent capital of Japan. The main attraction at Nara is the worlds largest wooden structure, a Buddhist shrine called Todaiji. The temple was fantastic and was surrounded by a park with deer everywhere! From Nara we headed back toward Kyoto and stopped outside at Fushimi Inari Shrine, a Shinto Shrine with thousands of shrine gateways called Tori. We arrived at dusk and walk the grounds for a good two hours...it was huge and being on the side of a mountain,
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