Nara. Templos Todai-ji, Kofuko-ji y santuario Kasuga Taisha
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- Distance
- 200.25 mi
- Elevation gain
- 292 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 407 ft
- Max elevation
- 405 ft
- TrailRank
- 53
- Min elevation
- 111 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 3 hours 28 minutes
- Time
- 6 hours 18 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1533
- Uploaded
- October 23, 2019
- Recorded
- October 2019
near Nara-shi, Nara (Japan)
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Nara in the Kansai region is one of the most traditional cities in Japan. To the south of Honshū, the main island of Japan, it was the capital of the country in medieval Japan. Because of its location, it is perfect for a day trip from Kyoto or Osaka, and that is precisely what we did: travel from Osaka for a day.
Already in Nara, we walk through its streets and visit its shops, many of them traditional. It struck me to see the amount of Buddha dolls with deer horns, since this is the mascot of this city. Each prefecture of Japan has an official pet and this is Nara's in honor of the large number of deer that live there.
And in Nara the deer lives free and walks everywhere. Deer, sika are considered messengers of the gods according to Shintoism and that is why they are protected. Visitors buy rice crackers to feed them. We will see them on the way to the temples in the park or Nara Koen where they will assault us asking for food. Some even know how to greet the Japanese style and they are fun.
Nara's landscape is flooded with historic buildings and monuments. Tōdai-ji, which means "Great Temple of the East", is the largest temple in Nara. In fact, its main pavilion, the Daibutsuden, or Big Buddha Hall, is the largest wooden building that currently exists, and houses a famous 15-meter-high bronze statue of the Great Buddha. It also impresses the great Nandai-mon gate at its entrance.
At one end of Nara Park, you can see the fantastic five-story pagoda of the Kofukuji Temple moved from Kyoto in 710.
Our next visit was the Kasuga Taisha. It is one of the oldest and most interesting Shinto shrines in all of Japan. According to legend, it dates from 718.
The Kasuga Taisha, which is at the foot of the sacred mountains of Kasugayama and Mikasayama, is especially recognizable by the approximately 2,000 stone lamps on the way up to what is the sanctuary itself, and once there, by the Around 1,000 beautiful bronze lamps.
In fact, UNESCO included it as Patrimony of Humanity in 1998 as part of the historical monuments of ancient Nara.
After so much wonderful visit, we made a stop to have some of the typical food and visit Nara Machi or its shopping streets.
As in almost everything recorded in Japan there are GPS reception failures in the tour. It is clear that satellites are not going as well as ours
Already in Nara, we walk through its streets and visit its shops, many of them traditional. It struck me to see the amount of Buddha dolls with deer horns, since this is the mascot of this city. Each prefecture of Japan has an official pet and this is Nara's in honor of the large number of deer that live there.
And in Nara the deer lives free and walks everywhere. Deer, sika are considered messengers of the gods according to Shintoism and that is why they are protected. Visitors buy rice crackers to feed them. We will see them on the way to the temples in the park or Nara Koen where they will assault us asking for food. Some even know how to greet the Japanese style and they are fun.
Nara's landscape is flooded with historic buildings and monuments. Tōdai-ji, which means "Great Temple of the East", is the largest temple in Nara. In fact, its main pavilion, the Daibutsuden, or Big Buddha Hall, is the largest wooden building that currently exists, and houses a famous 15-meter-high bronze statue of the Great Buddha. It also impresses the great Nandai-mon gate at its entrance.
At one end of Nara Park, you can see the fantastic five-story pagoda of the Kofukuji Temple moved from Kyoto in 710.
Our next visit was the Kasuga Taisha. It is one of the oldest and most interesting Shinto shrines in all of Japan. According to legend, it dates from 718.
The Kasuga Taisha, which is at the foot of the sacred mountains of Kasugayama and Mikasayama, is especially recognizable by the approximately 2,000 stone lamps on the way up to what is the sanctuary itself, and once there, by the Around 1,000 beautiful bronze lamps.
In fact, UNESCO included it as Patrimony of Humanity in 1998 as part of the historical monuments of ancient Nara.
After so much wonderful visit, we made a stop to have some of the typical food and visit Nara Machi or its shopping streets.
As in almost everything recorded in Japan there are GPS reception failures in the tour. It is clear that satellites are not going as well as ours
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Religious site
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396 ft
Escritura del templo y sellos
There is usually a place where you are sealed a book that testifies that you have passed through the temple. So for a modest price of about 300 and they write to you in Kanji the temple, the date and maybe some good fortune that you take as a souvenir
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