Sunday, May 24, 2015

Nara's Big Buddha and rebirth


Traveled about 1hr by train from Osaka to Nara to visit the Shinto Kasuga Taisa Shrine with its 3000 stone lanterns and the Todai-ji Buddist Temple 752AD a World Heritage site which houses the great Buddha.  The dear roam freely in the park around the temples and tourist can feed them biscuits but they get a bit excited by this - see the warnings and Hollander being surrounded!










A dear good luck fortune


Kasuga Taisa Shrine

We want more!!

Todaiji Temple

Lighting incense





The Great Buddha is about 15m high



The pole behind the Buddha has a hole in its base to crawl through.

If you do you are considered re born!!

Lots of dogs in prams, even nappies!

Osaka Castle headquarters for the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Dressing up in the castle as a shogun and maiden

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