The yellow texture is navigation for blind people. Some of the manhole covers, already carefully designed, have been individually customized to fit them!
Nara, city of deer.
Entrance to Todaiji temple
The Nara Buddha, the largest Buddha in Japan, is inside this Daibutsuden that is the largest wooden structure in the world.
Yes, you can get real close to the deer.
At this point my family understood I was not exaggerating about the deer.
Unusual octagonal hall
Reconstruction of the long-buried Nara palace
In the reconstructed audience hall of the long-buried Nara palace