Nara is a city park

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Not when one of Nara, such as "pulling a breath" with Kyoto. From the history, the city mesh closely. Nara is the capital of Japan before the first and then moved to Kyoto for almost 1,000 years. Both are only 42 km distance terpaut.

Coincidence, the last Friday in March is "Shunbun no-hi (Vernal Equinox day), days on which the sun crosses the equator, so long lunch with the long night. For the Japanese people this is a time to bersilaturahim and visit family graves. Not surprising since the morning when the train station in Tokyo is intercity plateau residents who will pass on the long holiday out of town. All kopernya drag race.

Travel by train to Kyoto Shinkansen dirambah fast for three hours. Shinagawa City, Mishama, Hamamatsu, Yokohama, Nagoya, terlewati quickly. Sesampai in Kyoto, Nara way to proceed with the regular train. Kyoto Station in the atmosphere much more peaceful. Seat in the train was not all filled.

Nara is the entrance to the spread of Buddhist religion in Japan sixth century. A number of temples located in this city to witness how the teachings of the kejayaannya reach and survive until the following milennia. However, in the Meiji era of Empire, entered the political area of religion. Kaiser Muncullah decision in 1868 to limit the teachings of the Buddha. Shinto became the only belief that officially recognized that era.

Track history terefleksikan in Todai-ji Temple. This is the magnet of the city Nara. Here there is a giant statue of the Buddha that was built during the Emperor Shomu (724-749). Todai-ji Temple is also believed as the largest wooden building in the world, several times the need to be rebuilt because of severe damage due to the earthquake, fire, and war.

The building is currently only a third of the original wide. The bronze statue of Buddha that has a 16 meters high and weight about 437 tons, the strong rise in the room a wall of wood. The room was simple through a variety of time, more than ten centuries.

Nara is a city park. And, parks in the city uninhabited hundreds of deer that roam freely. They believed the gods as a bead. Come to the Temple and Kasuga predict sempatkan valuable storage space objects from the Heian Period (Century 9-10). All objects on display has a relationship with the legendary god of Kasuga at Nara arrived with menunggangi deer and white. Legend is poured in the paper art adiluhung shaped silk painting, wood carving, pottery, ceramics, and war equipment. Overall beratribut deer.

Kasuga shrine, also known as the temple lantern. There are about 3,000 stone lantern clamp inlet toward the main building. Temporary buildings in the temple was filled with row lantern bronze and brass. Special ceremony to menyulut lantern held only twice a year, that is the beginning of February and mid August. Can be, when the dark night wrap Kasuga, surrounded hills, and thousands of lantern is switched on ... how beautiful.