http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Japan , Nara , Nara en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:30:00 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:30:00 BST Nara was an easy day trip on the shinkansen from Kyoto. Most of the important sights are in an area called Narakoen which is home to hundreds of supposedly wild Deer. Deer are considered sacred and are believed to be messengers from the gods and so are treated with upmost respect. You can even buy crackers to feed to them which Dan thought was a brilliant idea....until he was surrounded by http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-298699.html The 45 minute train ride through glum suburbia on a dull day did not give rise to any confidence in a revealing and pleasant day. But that is very much the end result we had. We enjoyed Nara by foot taking in the Kofukuji and Gangoji temples. Then a wedding at the spectacular kasuga Taisha shrine that has thousands of stone and iron lanterns. Here we saw a bride being maticulously prepared http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-280153.html We took a train from Osaka to Nara which is Japans old capital...Its a really lovely place but you can see from the pictures that it was peeing it down just for a change..Most of the sights are in the park which has loads of old temples which are amazing plus the biggest Budha in Japan which is 16m high...we just missed the president of China by a few hours although we didnt realise. The templ http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-275362.html Kavin junalla Narassa. Tuli kuvattua vaikka olikin sadepaiva.Nukuin pitkaan melkein yhdeksaan ja kun satoi ei oikein huvittanut lahtea liikkeelle. Olin unohtaa hostellin lainasateenvarjon bussiin linjaautoasemalla mutta asiasta huomautti minulle nainen joka oli noussut kyytiin samalla pysakilla japaniksi siis. Olin asemalla Kintetsuyhtion lippuluukulla klo 11.55. En ottanut 1100 jenin lipp http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-269628.html Up early this morning no particular reason but just felt like getting up and about. Had a great hot shower and spent an hour or two writing to people before the ladies awoke. Said a sad farewell to Gojo Guest House and made our way to the train station where we had to say an even sadder farewell to Sarah who heads back to Tokyo for her flight to NYC on Saturday. Sanj and I carried on to Nara whic http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-265328.html I found about The Takenouchi Highway.First goodthing about this place is that we can know about Nara's buddhist culture.We are go in spring. Spring is good season travel to Japan. So we can see Spring flower. Japan is famous for Spring flower.And we can see sumo traditional match in March.Second badthing about this place will be language.Because Japan peoples are no good English speakers.And me http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-261249.html The Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum is located on the southern tip of the island. In 1945 the bloodiest battle in the Pacific began. It started with 90 consecutive days of bombing a ldquotyphoon of steelrdquo that disfigured mountains leveled cities destroyed the cultural and changed the topography forever. The Japanese military had sent large forces to fight a battle of attrition to gain ti http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-259416.html The next leg of our trip was to Nara where Buddhism first came to Japan. This small city SW of Kyoto was the capital when Buddhist missionaries brought Buddhism to Japan and it has lots and lots of fine temples. We stayed in a Ryokan not a Rokugan as I kept calling them which is a traditional Japanese inn with tatami floors and futons for beds. There was rather more luxury here as we got three http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-257011.html My last full day in Kansai ended with Chiaki myself and one of Chiaki's friends going all the way out to Nara for the day. Nara is about an hour train ride on the Kintetsu Line from Kyoto Station and is full of temples from the Nara Period of Japanese history. Chiaki bought a guide book and everything and planed out our entire day on the train ride down. We headed straight for TodaiJi after lea http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-233637.html So Jeff finally made it and soon after he got to the hotel it was time to go out and figure out our plans for the New Year. I heard that one temple was good but on the internet I was reading that this one close by Gion had Maiko and Geisha there and afterwards everyone gathered in the park to drink and dance. So that place sounded cool. We get there and its crazy. SO many people were out ther http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-232196.html I'd been meaning to go to Nara since I first got to Japan but most of my friends hit it when they first got here leaving me without anyone to see it with. But Mitsu hadn't been for years and gamely agreed to traipse around it on another of our magical too rare joint weekdays off. It seemed like winter was about to land the weather was just starting to turn parky so we wrapped up and headed http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-225923.html to be updated http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-206592.html Ce matin la Sensei le professeur nous fait visiter la ville de Nara ville trs reconnue pour le plus gros Boudha intrieur assis du Japon et son parc de daim en libert. Nous devions y aller plus tt mais cette journe la il y avait un festival a caractere historique que lrsquoon pouvait observer.On a dbut notre visite par un magnifique temple mais je vous passe les dtails pour que http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-205617.html Pour faire changement des temples de Kyoto nous avons fait un voyage d'une journee a Nara petite ville a 45 minutes de Kyoto. Cette ville possede surtout... des temples Pour nous y rendre de la gare de Nara aux temples nous avons pris un autobus un peu au hasard nous savions toutefois qu'il allait vers l'endroit ou sont les temples. En regardant la liste des arrets affichees dans l'autobus http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-200061.html As you may know the US carpet bombed Tokyo in World World II and spent the next 30 years after the war financing the rebuilding of Tokyo. That is why much of Tokyo is modern and there is very little of ancient Tokyo that still exists to visit. So while in Japan we visited other destinations such as Kyoto and Nara to see Ancient Temples and Shrines. You can get to Nara by train in about 30 minu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-199707.html I am now a solo traveller once again...hostelling it...hoorayBefore I left Sachiko and Namiko we went to a small town called Nara. It used to be the capital of Japan many many years ago. Deer roamed the streets and liked invading your personal space. We visited the world's largest wooden building...it was quite overwhelming...not to mention the giant gold Buddah that sat peacefully inside. There http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-195217.html Idag var vi Nara som ligger godt en times krsel med bumletog fra Kyoto. Byen var Japans frste permanente hovedstad fra r 710 men mtte afgive tronen til frst Nagaoka og efterflgende Kyoto. Byen er lille efter japansk mlestok med sine ca. 360.000 indbyggere. Den er meget overskuelig og alle sevrdigheder er inden for gafstand fra banegrden s vi havde spndt sandalerne for at se henh http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-194535.html hellowell first off nara was great wasnt there long but its well worth going to at least to go the temple and see the 16m high buddha.you can also try and climbslide thru the the lucky pillar i did try but as soon as my skinny ribs felt the inclosed space i flipped. the same feeling as when i watch that dude in the pipe in 039aliens039anyway havent done any other excursions.mole has n http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-191776.html Day 7 An hour in Nara We were told that we could use the shower at Hotel Toyo around the block if we wished to take a morning rinse. We met a British couple also waiting for the shower and they gave us a bit of advice for our stay in Osaka and Kyoto. We had to wait until a Japanese man finished his shower before we were allowed in. The poor old man at reception felt so badly about it taki http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-184190.html We arrived off our first Shinkansen journey impressed with the efficiency comfort and speed of the Japanese railway system. I guess you wouldn't expect anything less from a country that is truely mad about trains. It seems the whole country is crisscrossed with railway lines which make travel around cheapish if you have the railpass and certainly a million times easier that it would be on a bu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-172711.html Nara Nara is like Kumamoto another city from where the emperor once ruled the country and therefore was the capital of japan. so another bunch of temples. you can visit the city on foot or hire a bike. Vanochtend twijfelen we nog altijd over hoe we onze laatste dagen JR railpass gaan besteden. Vandaag dan eerst maar Nara bezoeken en ondertussen wat informatie inwinnen over andere plaatsen. N http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-167368.html Jess arranged for an overnight stay in Nara home of the largest wooden building in the World. Having spent the first three hours of our morning on the train we sacrificed any need for RR and after lunch headed straight for Todaiji Temple to see Nararsquos main attraction. Burned out by our incessant travels I was rather lackadaisical on the cab ride over until I spotted several wild dee http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-157820.html Another day another temple... Quick day trip to Nara to soak up more of old Japan. Loads of tourists around and even more deer wanting something to eat such as our guide map straight out of Katie's pocket http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-130041.html Nara with its ancient temples was Japan's capital from 8th century. It is quiet and old city near Kyoto. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-129353.html traveled with family http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-119590.html Within the first two months or so I managed weekend getaways and explorations in Nagoya and Nara. Here are several pictures from those trips... http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-108993.html The somewhat ignorant probably hideously offensive but ultimately pretty funny jibe goes you're never alone with schizophrenia. If that is the case then I can conclude that it is possible to come close to experiencing living with this unfortunate mental disorder by travelling in Japan. The Japanese really seem to struggle with the idea of solitude. They live in houses where the walls are so th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-105303.html Kyoto November 3 7PART ONE Nara I am doing this in stages to make it more digestible for you and easier for me to write. Contrary to some peoplersquos thoughts I really have a job really work it about 9 hours a day really cook dinner go to the gym every night and travel every weekendhellipLifersquos nuts like that I guessMy parents God bless them tell me to write emails m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/Nara/blog-104933.html