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Beautiful Nara Park in Japan

Beautiful Nara Park in Japan

Good afternoon everyone, how are you? :) at this time I will discuss about my vacation to Japan at last year in 2015. And I will discuss about the tourist attractions in Nara Park. Nara is one of the places that Ive visited.

Nara is a prefecture that was once the capital city of Japan during the Nara era. Nara adjacent to Osaka and Kyoto, became a favorite tourist destination. This is because many traditional and historic buildings that can be accessed by foot.

Every weekend, Nara always crowded by tourists who visit Kofukuji, Nara Park, Kasuga Taisha, Todaiji and much more. The main attractions of Nara is Todaiji Temple is famous for the giant Buddha statue is Daibutsuden. Daibutsuden height reaches 15 meters and the main attraction, the tourism Nara is destination trip to Japan.

According to historical records, the capital of Japan was moved several times. In addition to Kyoto, Nara has also been used as the central government of Japan. Nara time it was still called Heijo-kyo. Effect of Nara in Japan increasingly felt in the Nara period.

Then, in medieval temples in Nara became a military force for the rulers. Because these temples have a lot of influence, not infrequently this temple was subjected to arson during the war. Even Daibutsuden at Todaiji Temple also had burned up twice.
 
It was only after the Edo period, Nara back to skyrocket. Tokugawa shogunate enforce their authority in Nara. Until now, the remnants of the life of the Edo period still visible in Nara. This was apparent in Naramachi tourism destination. A shopping street with quaint shops Edo style will be easy to find in Naramachi.

Nara Park

Welcome to Nara Park yaaay :D

Nara Park is a large park located in the center of the city of Nara, Japan. Built in 1880, which is much visited by local and foreign tourists.
While Nara Park is usually associated with the broad areas of the temples and the park proper, previously private gardens are now open to public. These gardens make use of the temple buildings as adjunct features of their landscapes.
The park is home to the Nara National Museum and Todai-ji, where the largest wooden building in the world houses a 50 tall statue of Buddha.
This park as well as the habitat of a home to hundreds of deer roam freely. Which in Shinto believed to be the messenger of the gods.
Nearly 1,200 deer roam in Nara Park and set up as a symbol of the city and the most protected animals in Nara.

The deer was cute

Deer here are very funny, and we can rubbed their head. I never touched deer if going to the zoo, and view it must be from a distance. But not when I visited Nara park, I could touch their head. LOL
Do not be afraid, because the deer here are very tame, despite aggressive. They become calmer, when fed by visitors. You can buy deers food such as cookies that have a lot in peddling on the edge all the way around Nara park at a price of about 150 yen per pack. Although they are benign, you should be careful, sometimes they will follow or sniff your bags or innate, to be given cookies again.

See Also: NGETRIP KE KYOTO , OSAKA, NARA, TOKYO ( 5 hari )

I gave the cookies to a deer

Kasuga Taisha Shrine

Front in Kasuga Taisha Shrine

Other attractions in Nara is the Kasuga Grand Shrine (Kasuga Taisha Shrine), which was founded in 768 by Lord Fujiwara, an influential man in those days, on the orders of Emperor Shotoku. This shrine one of the most famous Shinto shrines in Japan. The buildings are lacquered with a bright red color creates a beautiful contrast with the greenery around it. Approximately 1,800 stone lanterns stand around the temple, and 1,000 metal lanterns hanging from the eaves of its corridors.

1,800 stone lantern

This Shrine is unique because it perpetuated the four Gods of important shrines throughout Japan, as Kashima-jingu of Ibaraki Prefecture, Katori-jingu of Chiba Prefecture and Hiraoka-jinja of Osaka. From the 8th century, this shrine accompanies prosperity Fujiwara family, so that later evolved as a shrine to the ancestors of the family Fujiwara. The shrine is also famous as the Shrine where the regents, adviser to the Emperor, the Emperor and the Emperor retired all come to worship. The main shrine, built in a special shrine structure called Kasuga-zukuri, which is designated as a national treasure of Japan. Not only the shrine but also the mountain "Mikasa-yama" the background the shrine also has been the object of worship, as well as attractions that deserves to be enjoyed if you are on vacation to Japan.

Front in Kasuga Taisha Shrine

Its been all year, in this temple many beautiful and interesting festivals. On February 3 and August 14 to 15, more than 3,000 lanterns lit temple during Setsubun Mantoro and Mantoro Obon festival. If you visit outside the dates of the festivals you can still see the festival in the building Fujinami, at least where a row of lighted lanterns await visitors throughout the year. Visitors can also participate in various smaller festivals, dances or ceremonies in the area Kasuga Taisha as "rice planting dance".


If you wanna avoid crowdedness and wanna enjoy more of the natural sounds, you should plan your visit to the shrine in the early morning. You will likely come across several deer and hear the soft chants of the priests. Twice a day the sound of the blows to calling the deer and indicates to the deer to gather in the park for deers daily cookies.


This is a unique and entertaining experience not to be missed. I can enjoyed the beauty of the city of Nara, and visit some tourist spots such as Nara Park, I could see hundreds of deer are free to run to and fro, and could touch them and feed them. Not only that, there was a beautiful temple in the middle of the woods such as Kasuga Taisha Shrine, who has thousands of lanterns are very beautiful and others.

I end my story this time, I will discuss other interest topics at the next time. And discuss about my other trip when I visited Japan. Hopefully, this topic can build your curiosity to visit Nara, because there are many other interesting sights there.
Thankyou for read this article, see you later everyone..


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