[JAPAN] Great cities: Nara ♥

Hello everyone ♥

I hope you're all having nice autumn days!
Today I want to show you some pictures from my daytrip to Nara~
After visiting Kyoto last week on Saturday, I decided to go to this pretty city one day later, Sunday ♥

I decided to just stay in Nara park since most of the World Heritage sights are located there and it's a really huuuge park :D

First stop was Kofukuji with beautiful five-story Pagoda!

  After visiting Kofukuji I wanted to walk to Todaiji temple directly but since this park is so big I lost my way a bit (again) ^^'' But luckily I saw this sign on the sidewalk and decided to take a look:

... aaand I found a reaaally cute Vintage Shop and Café!

The menu card was in scrapbook style~ ♥

That's how it looked inside! typically Japanese and nicely decorated~

Plus it was on 2nd floor so you had a nice view over the roofs of Nara  ♥

And here is what I ordered:

*__* Sooo delicious! Even better than it looks haha ♥ ♥

So after this wonderful refreshment I tried to find Todaiji temple again...

...and succeeded! :D

Todaji temple! 

Inside was this huuuuuge Buddha statue!!

I took so much pictures of deer, they were sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuteee awww ♥ much love!

After that I walked to Tamukeyama-Hachimangu shrine!

Ema! I also wrote one but I won't tell you ♥

It was late afternoon already when I walked to my next destination, Kasuga-Taisha shrine!

I also couldn't resist to buy some deer cookies and feed them ^////^ I think they'll probably get more than enough of these cookies but well... look at them! :D They're just too cute!

Kasuga-Taisha shrine!

In front of this shrine is a road with thousands of lanterns!! It was quite impressive!

I walked along this long road and it brought me back to where I started in the morning ♫

All in all, it was a very nice day in Nara ♥ Again I walked for many hours but it wasn't exhausting because there was just so much to see! Although there were many tourists in Nara park, I still think it has a nice atmosphere, especially in the evening. You could also stay there and just relax! ^-^

Maybe I should come here again someday and visit more places in the city, but for just one day staying in Nara park was perfect. ♫

So that was my second weekend in Kansai and the third weekend also already passed waah I need to keep up with my postings ;)

But that's all for today, thanks for reading!

♥

[JAPAN] Great cities: Kyoto ♥

Hello mermaids~ ♥

 

This is my quite picture-heavy post about my daytrip to beautiful Kyoto!!

It was my first time visiting this amazing city so I was really excited ♥ Unfortunately I haven't had the time to plan my trip better so I did something very touristic and reserved a seat at the Kyoto World Heritage Tour bus xD 

This bus takes you to the most famous places in Kyoto and you can just hop on / hop off as you like! While you're on the bus you even get some information about Kyoto, very interesting~

Maybe 2500 yen was not so cheap but oh well I don't mind because I didn't have to plan a lot, could just enjoy my trip and even learn a few historical facts about the city!

There were soo many interesting places, I really couldn't decide what to visit ^__^ I could have easily spent much more time in Kyoto than just one day!

My first destination was beautiful Nijo castle:

The weather was, like every day, so so great!

Entrance~

In front of Nijo castle!

Beautiful garden ♥

Nijo castle was a very interesting place! I liked the wall paintings inside very much ♥ ( but it wasn't allowed to take pictures! ) Also, the flooring that makes a sound with every step to prevent the castle from unbidden guests was very interesting and funny to walk on ^^

My next stop was at Golden Temple Kinkakuji!

Wow!!! So impressive! 

I just stood there for a few minutes and watched the beautiful landscape ♥

Real gold was used for this! ^-^

At Kinkakuji you could try to throw a coin into the basin and if you strike you'll have a happy life~
And guess what? First coin was a success ahaha ♥ Now nothing in my life can ever go wrong again... I suppose ;)

On my way back to the bus stop I saw many cute shops!

So, the third stop I made was at Heian shrine!

In front of the shrine a girl about my age asked me if she could be my guide ^-^ She was a volunteer guide! So I said yes and she told me a lot of things about the shrine and explained the different buildings, so interesting! She also is studying German so we talked a lot about Japan and Germany, it was really nice!

At the shrine there was an exhibition of beautiful flower arrangements *__*

Waah! So lucky I could see this!!

My fourth and last destination on that day was famous temple Kiyomizudera!

On my way to the temple I saw so many women wearing Kimono, soo beautiful ♥ ♥

And here are the pictures I took of Kiyomizudera:

The view was absolutely amazing!! 

One of the prettiest places I saw in my whole life haha ♥

For dinner I ate this near the temple~

Aww ♥ And that already was my day at Kyoto! I fell so much in love with this beautiful city! So much to see, so many interesting places ♥ I want to go there again!! And maybe see Maiko!

Have you ever been to Kyoto? Which places should I visit when I go there next time?


In the evening I went back to the station and took a last picture:

Goodbye Kyoto, see you again soon! ♥ ♥ ♥