Nara

We headed out early morning to Nara. The multiple Suica cards were still problematic, but Divya had a theory for what was going wrong - the phones were picking the same card again and again. After reaching Nara, we took a bus straight to the Todai-ji temple, and were surrounded by lots of wild deer - famous for bowing when they accept food from tourists. We tried this ourselves (especially Divya and Purva) and found the deer to be extremely greedy. While they were indeed bowing a little, they were more eager to just get the food through any means. The Todai-ji shrine was impressive with the largest bronze Buddha statue in the world. The weather was not great - it was drizzling mildly the whole time. We encountered our first sight of Sakura in the Nara park, but only a handful of trees had bloomed, the vast majority had not. We had some lunch in a small local place, where we tried their Ramen and Warabimochi, and then headed to the Nara station to catch a train to Osaka.Read more