🧳🇯🇵🧳 OSAKA, JAPAN - March 29, 2019 - Nara Park 奈良公園 and Todai-Ji Buddhist Temple

On the first day it was off to Nara Park. Likely most famous for its deer. Over 1200 roam freely throughout the park. A National Treasure. Most have become very tame and can be fed deer crackers available throughout the park. They can become aggressive if you have crackers and don’t hand them out quickly. I’ll concentrate on the deer first, as well there is a beautiful World Heritage site Buddha temple in the park.

Some of the deer have learned to bow as a behaviour response to being fed deer crackers

Danger deer crossing on the road but an incident where about one hundred deer suddenly ran through the crowd including children makes one stop and think ... the following set of photos were taken during this run!

Note the white flare raised on their rumps!

The herd after the run ... not sure if there were more deer or photographers 

Selling roasted sweet potatoes 

And on to the temple ... Todai-Ji

The great Buddha, 48.91 feet (14.908 meters). Todai-Ji according to Wikipedia  “According to records kept by Tōdai-ji, more than 2,600,000 people in total helped construct the Great Buddha and its Hall; contributing rice, wood, metal, cloth, or labor; with 350,000 working directly on the statue's construction.”