nara trip 🦌 from kyoto 🚃 bowing deer, scenic train ride, Nara Park, Tōdai-ji

Let’s explore outside of Kyoto!

In today’s video: we’re taking a scenic train 🚃 from Kyoto to Kintetsu-Nara Station, exploring Nara Park and meeting the bowing deer 🦌 to feed them some rice cakes 🍪 as well as exploring the beauty of the park and the Tōdai-ji under the morning sun ☀️ on the way back, I show you the beautiful landscapes from the train!

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📸 shot on iPhone 14 Pro 🗓 in August/September 2023

📍 Places mentioned and their Google maps locations:
🚃 Kintetsu-Nara Station (closest station to Nara Park!) https://maps.app.goo.gl/4W5Hcgax7c7q3Dw16
🦌 Nara Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/4W5Hcgax7c7q3Dw16
🪷 Tōdai-ji https://maps.app.goo.gl/JJg8ZSwEp1gfppvi6

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Music at the end:
Sukidakara – Yuika (fingerstyle cover)

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Welcome back everyone! today, we’re traveling to a city about 45 minutes from Kyoto but first things first… we’re getting the train station’s stamp!! 😁 almost no room left in my notebook! (I am skipping pages to avoid ink overflow)

I woke up around 5:30AM today again 😮‍💨 I am starting to feel some travel exhaustion around 6:30AM, I joined the office workers in the train heading south of Kyoto I felt so bad for the office workers who were in full suit 🤵🏻 it was already 30°C!! 🥵

The landscapes we rode by were so beautiful! well-arrived you know me by now… this is one of the prettiest I’ve seen!! wow, you can already find some deer on the street leading to Nara Park! they are even crossing the road! ins’t it dangerous with the cars? look they are everywhere!

There are warning signs on the way to the park, you will find dozens of rice cakes stands you can feed the deer with the rice cakes – it’s a must-buy! as soon as I bought some,this smart one started to follow me 😂 I guess we’re friends now 😂

Let’s read the safety guidelines first! just a bit scary 😨 at first, I thought it might be hard to find the deer in the gigantic park… …but actually, they were everywhere you looked! and so adorable! the park itself was beautiful too so quiet and peaceful at 8am the morning light was splendid

🦌 engraved so majestic, the king of the forest! the babies are just so cute! fun fact: Nara deer are famous for bowing to visitors offering rices cakes 👀 okay, my first interaction with one of them…

The crackers fell on the floor and he got scared when I bent down to pick it up 🥺 I tried to show him the crackers on the floor but I confused him more 😅 is that a small bow? I bowed back and I confused him more 😂 bow, bow a successful interaction

More bow, more bow look at his friend wanting to join the party 😂 I will bow forever until you give me food!! let’s bow in unison I wanted to feed the baby but he got scared 🥹 trying to teach the elders some good manners 😂

I read that a lot of visitors don’t know about this little trick… So a lot of them feed the deer without bowing haha and now, locals are saying the deer are becoming rude, expecting to be fed unconditionally 🤣 no bowing, no rice cakes, sorry! I really wanted to feed the babies because they seemed more shy to get the rices cakes – but they were too scared 🥺 so their older siblings got them instead 😅 something to watch out for in Nara Park… deer poor everywhere! I wanted to visit Nara Park for the deer…

…but honestly, the park is so beautiful too, it’s worth visiting! look at the cute lobsters 🦞 it was my first time seeing these in the wild I set the camera and as I was walking by… he started to bow right away! well-deserved rice cake 💕 and he said thank you!

A friend of his joined us… … and he got jealous when I fed him!! 😱 okay, okay, here’s one for you also… 😅 AND THEN HE STARTED TO 💩 You can get some refreshments in the park as soon as you start feeding one, the others come around I got surprised hahaha something funny is about to happen, just you wait… I wanted to take a step back, just to not feel too overwhelmed… This one bit me!!

You can’t see because of my bag BUT I DID FEEL IT VERY WELL Here’s your rice cake, don’t kill me, please!! They look so peaceful… DON’T BE FOOLED!! This woman asked me where I bought the rice cakes (she didn’t see the stands) I shared some of mine with hers, so she wouldn’t have to walk back this deer saw me give her some cakes, and he started to follow her around 😂 they are VERY smart!

Be careful of the ones with antlers they can be more aggressive I was scared for this couple haha you can keep a distance and zoom on them with your camera so beautiful oh, he’s coming my way… I never visit zoos or parks where animals are caged/enclosed in Nara, the deer are free to walk around and meet visitors (or not!)

The rice cakes are bonus for them, they have other (and much more!) sources of alimentation where are you going made another friend! such a beautiful day I headed back towards the entrance the big touristic buses had started to arrive (around 9AM) here you can buy Omiyage! everything is deer-themed

I watched poor tourists getting swarmed by deer haha this poor guy cracked open a package in the middle of a group of deer… …and he suffered the consequences 🤣 he literally got cornered against the stall 🤣 I would feel overwhelmed too try to avoid big groups of deer and privilege one-on-one interactions 😅

I loved visiting Nara park 🥰 I left when the sun got too strong can I be fully honest with you? I think my favorite part of this trip was actually… the TRAIN RIDE! I mean… look at the vibrant colors! it looks like it’s edited but it’s not!

The mountains in the distance it felt like I had jumped into a Ghibli movie I loved seeing the residential areas too doesn’t it look fake because of how perfect it is? 😅 it looks like impressionism back in Kyoto! hope you enjoyed today’s vlog! 😊

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