Caution Deer!

Our third day in Osaka saw us take a little excursion out of the city and to Nara, which contains a massive park with lots of temples and shrines as well as what feels like a billion deer. Making our way up and across first we passed a few temples as well as people feeding the deers then getting chased by them. We passed the museum and another temple as they all seemed to charge and only wanting to see a certain couple. Headed straight to Diabutsu temple, which is massive, but it would have to be as it holds the biggest Buddhist statue in Japan. Surprisingly we were actually allowed to take photos in here. Washing ourselves we headed up the stairs at the top of which we lit an incense candle. Inside the statue was huge, around the first corner was a couple of foreigners on the bench meditating, fair enough. In a pillar there was a whole that kids were crawling through. Had a laugh at joke with some people who asked if I was going to give it a go. I told them my leg wouldn’t even fit. I also donated a tile to the renovation.

Making our way uphill still we came across a shrine adorned with doves.Across the top we found a watch hill overlooking the park but it was closed. Further on we hit a shrine that was surrounded by thousands of lanterns ready for Obon which was in a few day, it would have been a sight.

After this day trip we headed back to Osaka, a quick rest stop at the Pokemon center then it was den den town, which is Otaku heaven.