Todai-ji

A vast wooden hall sheltering Japan's largest bronze Buddha, surrounded by bowing deer.

34.6890, 135.8398

Photo by WANG Tianfang (https://unsplash.com/@senchannnn) on Unsplash

Get directions +81 742-22-5511

Address: 406-1 Zoshicho, Nara, 630-8587
Hours: 7:30-17:30
Price: 600 yen adults
Nearest station: Kintetsu Nara Station, ~20-min walk through Nara Park

Home to a giant bronze Buddha; free-roaming deer bow for crackers along the approach.

templegreat-buddhadeer-parkunesco

Stories from here

Day Trip from Kyoto to Nara's Deer Park and Todai-ji

Before Kyoto was ever a capital, Nara held the title, and it still guards a bronze Buddha the size of a building and a park full of deer that bow like courtiers for a cracker.