Nara day 3 - Heijo Kyu 平城宮 - Toshodai-ji 唐招提寺 - Yakushi-ji 薬師寺

Last day in Nara was going to be an exhausting experience although a wicked day too. Like I always say you’ve got to walk along the roads, alleys, mews, tidy and dirty roads and lastly go through the places tourist books don’t tell you about. For me that is the best way to get to know a city.


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Nara is a big city but that day I discovered (from a tourist and ignorant point of view) that the city itself has different faces. The farther West you go the simpler it gets, the poorer (in some places) it becomes and least developed it turns.

Nara - Day 1 - 奈良市

Nara-shi 奈良市 - Day 1 

Getting in Nara was a bit of an adventure as I didn’t exactly know which train station was the right one, but it added a bit more to my tour around the country.

I got out in the Kyobate JR Station but I got confused and took another train to Central Nara in order to go to get to the Kintetsu Nara Station. Once I got there it was a bit more complicated since there were no signs for Tourist Information Office but as usual Japanese people were very helpful. I got inside this travel agency shop in the lower ground and they told me to go upstairs and take the 3rd exit. However, they stressed that  I had to hurry because the Tourist Office was going to close very soon.

Special Konbini in Nara - transformed into an improvised bar after closing time - 奈良市のコンビニ