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 We drove an hour or so from Kyoto to Nara to be surrounded by deers 🙂

There are around 1,200 tame deers around Nara park ( one of the oldest parks in Japan). The deers are considered sacred. Visitors feed the deers in the park as they roam freely around #NaraPark #H2HNara #H2HAnimals  Nandaimon Gate, a large wooden gate watched over by two fierce looking statues. Representing the Nio Guardian Kings, the statues are designated national treasures together with the gate itself.    Todaiji temple, the world’s largest wooden building and home to Japan’s largest Buddha

 Todaiji (???, T?daiji, “Great Eastern Temple”) is one of Japan’s most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. The temple was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved from Nara to Nagaoka in 784 in order to lower the temple’s influence on government affairs.

Todaiji’s main hall, the Daibutsuden (Big Buddha Hall) is the world’s largest wooden building, despite the fact that the present reconstruction of 1692 is only two thirds of the original temple hall’s size. The massive building houses one of Japan’s largest bronze statues of Buddha (Daibutsu). The 15 meters tall, seated Buddha represents Vairocana and is flanked by two Bodhisattvas. ( Japan-Guide.com)