Nara

We headed out early morning to Nara. The multiple Suica cards were still problematic, but Divya thought she knew 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 Temple was impressive, with its enormous bronze Great Buddha statue. 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