Today we took the bus to our final stop, Kyōtō. But first we made a pit stop in Nara. There’s a massive park there with several temples and shrines. And here too, there’s a whole bunch of tame deer roaming around freely, eating biscuits right out of the tourists’ hands.
The main temple is the Tōdai-ji, which at nearly 49 metres tall is the biggest wooden building in the world. Inside sits a giant 15-metre bronze Buddha. The most important shrine is the Kasuga Taisha, a gorgeous complex with thousands of stone and metal lanterns.
In the evening we arrived at our hotel in Kyōtō. Our non-smoking room reeked of stale cigarette smoke so badly it took our breath away. Luckily we got to move to another room, even with a better view! There we ate some sushi we’d grabbed from a supermarket after a bit of shopping.
