NARA JAPAN – A Very Unique place to FEED THE DEER by Hand

NARA JAPAN – A Very Unique place to FEED THE DEER by Hand

Hi, everyone.
I’m Mark from Travelshorts. This is my daughter Holly. That’s my son, Matthew. And today’s the sixth day
of our epic Japan trip. And the plan is to go to Nara
and then onwards to Kyoto. Nara is really famous for its deer. I think there’s a 1,200 deers
just in the Nara Park area itself. They’re really friendly. You can actually buy some,
I think they’re cookies for deer. I think it’s either 100 or 150 ¥,
but we’ll find out when we get there. And you can actually feed the deer. And before you feed them,
they actually bow out of respect, well, begging, really,
to get some cookies off you. For the last two days and three nights,
we’ve been staying here at the Park Front Hotel at Universal City. That’s our view from our window. We’ve been in Universal Studios
the past two days. So if you miss those videos,
check them out now. Just look at this playlist
and you’ll find them. But we had such a great
time in Universal Studios. But now it’s time to move
on and keep exploring Japan. We’ve just dropped our cases off
downstairs with the concierge. We’re using a shipping service
that take our cases around Japan. So rather than carrying them on the train
and then exploring Nara and then going onwards to Kyoto, having to lug our cases
around and leave them in lockers in train stations. Hopefully, when we get to Kyoto tonight,
our suitcases should be waiting for us in our hotel room. And now we’re going to head down
to Universal City Walk and look for somewhere for our breakfast. I think we’re going to do
something quick and easy. These are McDonald’s right
across the way from our hotel. I think we’re going to head there. This just arrived in about three minutes. Matthew’s having a sausage,
egg, and Cheese McCriddle. Holly’s having a Sausage McCriddle. I’m having a Sausage and Egg McMuffin,
and I also decided to get this. I’m not sure where it is, but it
was all promoted as Japan breakfast. Then we just got some
hash browns and drinks. Okay, this is the Japan Breakfast Muffin. It’s got, I guess, a sausage patty,
cheese and lettuce with some sauce. I’ll tell you what
the sauce is once I try it. I think it’s a teriyaki sauce. Tastes okay, but I think I prefer
my standard sausage and egg McMuffins. Holly didn’t really like her McGriddle. So I’ve got her some
spicy chicken nuggets. So here in Japan, they serve some of
the regular menu in the morning as well. Spicy chicken nuggets. That was the Hollywood
dream roller coaster. Holly’s favourite ride in the park. And mine.
And Matthew’s. Mine’s still Jaws. Or maybe Mine Cart Madness. We’ve just come back to the Universal
globe just to take those last minute photographs before we leave the area. We’re going to be catching a train
now all the way to Nara Station. We got one change along the way,
but not sure when the next time will be that we’ll be coming
to Universal Studio Japan. Hopefully, it’ll be in the next
few years, but who knows? Are you ready to go to Nara, Holly?
Yeah. We’re at Universal City Station. We are looking for our train track. I believe it’s going
to be on platform one. It’s a blue one,
and it’s a JR, Umesca Line. You want to go over there? And we’re heading for platform one. And you could see all those people
there heading to Universal Studios. So if you’re wondering how we’re getting
around on this trip around Japan, we’re using IC cards
for local services like this. That’s what mine looks like. That’s what Holly’s looks like because
she’s a child, so she gets half fair. And to get that,
we had to see an attendant when we arrived at Kansai Airport because they had
to check Holly with her passport to prove she was young enough to get a child card. For the Osaka and Kansai region,
the main brand is ICOCA. You might be more familiar
with Pasmo or Suica. That’s if you come to Tokyo first,
they are the ones for that area. But they can be used throughout Japan,
no matter what brand of card you have. And to get around and navigate the subway
system, train systems, everything here around Japan. Google Maps works perfectly. So we just put our destination we want
to go into, to directions, and then it tells you what is the best
trains, underground, subways, walking, et cetera, how to get there. So we’ve just boarded a train. We’re on the JR Nushaki Line. We’re going to go two stops
and get off at Nishikujo Station. There we’re going to board the Hanshin
Namba line all the way to Nara. We’ve just got off that train. We’re now going towards the Hanshu Line. This is a separate part of the station. We had to use our IC cards,
our ICOCA cards to check out, and then recheck in into this way. We’re on platform one
on the Nara bound line. That was the local train
that just departed then. We’re waiting for either the rapid Express
or semi-rapid Express as they get there a lot quicker. So I’ve just checked all the timetable. Ours will be leaving at 11:04. There’s one more train just before ours. We’ve arrived at Nara Station,
this is the Kintetsu Station. There’s two stations in Nara,
this one and the JR Station. I chose to come to this station because
it’s closest to the main attractions that we want to visit today. So it looks like we want the East Exit, out of the station. So we’ve made it to Nara. As you can probably see,
the station was extremely busy. I I think probably because this is one
of the main tourist destinations in Japan, especially if you’re travelling between
Osaka and Kyoto, or Kyoto and Osaka. Nara was actually the first
official capital of Japan as well, back in the eighth century. So it has got a lot of history here. Our first port of call today is Nara Park. Inside Nara Park, there’s up to
1,200 deers roaming free. They’re said to be the messengers
of the gods, and they’re actually a national treasure as well. Our first thing we’re going to do is buy
some little cookies or some biscuits to feed them. There’s our first one. Okay, we made it to Nara Park. We bought three sets of crackers. So they call them crackers,
not cookies like I was doing. Price has gone up.
Last time I saw, they were 150. They’re now 200. So we spent 600
to get all three of them for us. Oh, look, he’s bowing. There you go.
He’s bowing. Here you go. Watch out, Holly.
She’s coming to get you. Enjoying this, though, Holly?
Yeah. As you’ve seen, you’ve
got to be really careful. They’re pretty full on. They come right at you. If it doesn’t look like you’re feeding
them, they try to give you a nip on the clothes.
They’re trying to do Holly now. And that’s it.
All our crackers are gone. Enjoying this, Holly?
Yeah. Yeah. So we’ve just bought another
two packs of cookies. That brings our total up to five
packs of cookies, 200 each. So we’ve just spent a 1000
Yen on cookies to feed the deer. We’re going to go
to the far end of the park. It seems to be a bit quieter there
with not as many deers coming and grabbing and trying to bite us to get the cookies. Holly is really enjoying herself. You really are, aren’t you, Holly? Yeah. Matthew doesn’t think it’s too bad, but he
doesn’t like it when it comes to nip him. And it can be a bit intimidating when
you’ve got a group of five, six or even seven deer coming at you doing
this, trying to get a cookie off you, trying to look what’s in your pocket. So you got to be careful. They do give you a bit of a nasty
nip if you’re not careful. Yeah, one bit more Holly’s Hoodie,
lucky it didn’t damage it, but they must have had dirty teeth, though. It’s left a dirty teeth
stain on her Hoodie. Of course, they have a brush their teeth. Yeah, they never do. So these are what the cookies actually
look like, or the crackers, they should say. How many?, it’s 2, 4, 6,
8, 10 crackers per pack. Also, never carry all of them
in your hand in one go. The deers have come swarming
from all around to get them off. So what I do and what Holly and Matthew
have been doing, we’ve been hiding them in our pockets. So I’ve been hiding them
in my cargo pockets like that. And Holly and Matthew have been
putting it in their hoodie pocket. And that is why you don’t hold
them all in your hand at one time. Definitely try and hide them somewhere
in your pockets or in your bag. Bow, bow, bow. He was a bit rude, that one. He’s a mean one. That was a mean one. And he didn’t bow at me either.
No. He didn’t bow at you
and he did a little kick. Let’s go find someone else. That one there did a little bit of a kick
at Holly, so he didn’t even bow to begin with when Holly gave him a cookie. A bow? Yeah. There you go. This one’s Rudolf, almost.
Do you want to get… Oh, there he’s bowing.
Do you want to get one, Holly? It is like a game of cat and mouse. They start chasing you,
so you have to walk away briskly. Even the ones that kept following
when you didn’t kick me. No.
I mean, it bit me, but It didn’t bite me, but my hoodie Well, I think we’re going to call
it a day here at Nara Park. That was actually a lot of fun,
if I’m going to be completely honest. Matthew was a bit unsure to begin with,
but the further away from the cookie sellers, the cracker sellers that we came,
the deer were a lot less violent, I’m going to say. And especially that last one,
I think he was an old timer. You could tell by the length of his horns. He was really friendly, really nice.
He enjoyed that, Matthew. Yeah.
At the end. I’ll wait for this part.
Yeah, this part. I enjoyed it.
Yeah. I enjoyed the whole time. That’s part of today.
We’ve done nothing yet. So what I think we’re going
to do now is find ourselves… Well, we’ll go somewhere
and find ourselves a drink. I was actually thirsty work,
especially walking briskly away from gangs of deer coming to chase me
and trying to bite you on the bum. He did bite me on the bum. Yeah, it did bite my view on the bum. Yeah, but like I said,
that last one there, the old Timer, he was a friendly one. So I was happy to give him quite a few
of the crackers, if I’m being completely honest. Anyway, shall we go
and find a drink somewhere? Yeah.
Yeah. Starbucks across the road
by the look of it. And we go underneath by the subway here. Do you want a Starbucks, Holly? Yeah, we got to go underneath
the ground to get there though. So there’s Matthew and Holly’s Mango Soda. That’s my vanilla Frappucino. This came to 1,800 and something,
which is £9, just under £10. And we got a nice view out the window So we’ve finished our drinks. Now we’re heading over to Todaiji Temple. Todaiji Temple has been on this
site since the eighth century. The Buddhist temple,
and it is, well, at one point, it was reputed to be the largest
wooden building on Earth. Actually, the size of the temple actually
caused its downfall a few years later. Because the Buddhist monks were simply
getting so powerful because of the size of the temple, the capital was actually
moved from Nara to another site, which I can’t remember
that city’s name, unfortunately. But then after that one,
it then moved to Kyoto, where it remained for a number of years. So just like that sign says,
this is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Holly,
we’ve got another UNESCO World Heritage Site to add to your collection. What’s it? Well, I’m telling you, it’s just a lot
of- Very important buildings or monuments. You’ve been to lots of them.
Have I? Yeah, like Petra,
for instance, or Colosseum. Now, I’ll be completely honest. I haven’t done a great deal of research
about Todaiji Temple, other than the facts that I just
mentioned on the walk here today. But I do think there’s a number
of buildings on this site. So I think we’re going to just go and
explore, walk around and see what’s here. And it looks like there’s a bunch
of school trips here as well today. We’ve passed loads on the way to this
building behind me here, and there’s a load going in now. Also, there’s plenty of deer because
this is still, I think, Nara Park area. So the deers are everywhere. Like I said, there’s 1,200 deer
roaming around here in Nara. They have a number of QR codes that you
can scan, which will give you information about Todaiji temple
in your native language. I think I may have read
that when this was rebuilt for its final time, it’s only one-third of the footprint
that it was originally, which may explain why this isn’t
the largest building made of wood on the planet at the moment. But can you imagine what the size this was originally if this is only one-third of the
footprint that’s here now? It is a very large wooden structure, and let’s go inside and see what’s in there. We’ve made it inside the temple. There’s at least two,
maybe three giant Buddha’s behind us, but there’s also about at least
a thousand school kids as well. We can’t really walk anywhere. So we’re going to try and fight our way
through the crowd somehow, and get a closer look. Now that we’ve come out of the big Buddha
hall behind me here, and we just take a little bit
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the history of the city and how it became the capital of Japan all those years ago
and why it ceases to be the capital of Japan. But it looks like it’s all dedicated to Buddhist art, so we’re going to give that a miss. We’re probably going to leave Todaiji Temple now and find something to eat. So this is the way out of Todaiji Temple. This is how we came in earlier through
that huge wooden structure, acts as the gate, I guess, to this whole complex. All right, shall we go
and get something to eat? Yeah.
Yeah, something to eat? When we were by the train station earlier,
we saw a street which was lined with restaurants. So we’re going to head back there now. There might be another temple on the way. If there is, we’ll stop there for a few
minutes just to take a little look around and we can continue
on to get something to eat. We’re back in Nara Park. We’re going to walk straight through. Hopefully, we won’t get
jumped by some deer. We’re going to take
a look down the street. Right next to the train station. So there’s a train station there,
just outside of the street. Hopefully, there’s plenty of choice
for restaurants, cafés, and places we can have our late lunch, early dinner. So because Holly is such a fussy eater,
aren’t you, Holly? We’ve got her, can you believe this,
a kebab wrap in Japan, and she’s getting kebab wraps. But that means me and Matthew can go
and get something a bit more authentic Japanese in a minute. So Holly’s going to eat her kebab wrap
here, which we just got on the street over there. When she’s finished that,
me and Matthew will go to the restaurant. Holly will come through to the restaurant,
and you can try some of my food as well, Holly.
What does it taste like? Just like back home. I bet that one.
A bit different. It’s great.. Now, Holly’s eaten.
Did you enjoy that? Yeah. Me and Matthew are going to go and get
something a bit more authentic. We’ve come to a cafe called Kizuna Cafe. It inside a little shopping
street just next to the train station. Matthew’s gone for some katsu curry
cutlet, and I’m going for a beef stew, which I know is not very authentic. I quite fancy some beef stew, actually. Let’s see what that’s like. Also, complementary water,
which we’re filling up with. Total cost was
3,223 ¥, which is about £16. This is my beef curry with bread
and a side salad. And there’s Matthew’s Katsu Curry Cutlet. Did you enjoy that?
Yeah. Yours was very nice and you
had quite a big portion. Mine did taste really nice,
but the only issue I had with it was there was actually only three
pieces of beef in there. There was a few pieces of carrots,
some mushrooms, some potatoes, and it wasn’t actually served in a bowl,
so it looked like it was quite deep. So there should be lots
of the gravy in there. But it wasn’t, it was a plate. So the gravy was probably
four or five millimetres, so it was a quarter of an inch deep. But it did taste good, for I would have
just liked a little bit more of it. Anyway, we’re now going
to head towards the JR Nara train station. Get on a train. That’s going to take us all
the way to Kyoto Station. Now, to get from JR Nara Station to Kyoto, we’re going to use our JR Kansai Hiroshima passes, which we used a few days ago. Go to Hiroshima and back. It’s a JR pass. It was valid for five days. We only got them to go to Hiroshima
and back because it was actually cheaper than buying a return Shinkansen ticket. So if you watch our episode,
a few episodes back when When we went to Hiroshima, I talk all
about it during that trip. But you can use it throughout
the Kansai area for the five days. We didn’t use it to come to Nara today. Hold on, I’m just going to press
the button so we can cross the road. We didn’t use it to come to Nara today
because we want to use the Kintetsu Line because the Kintetsu station
is closer to Nara Park and Todaiji Temple. So we want to do a bit less walking. So we did have to pay for the ticket
there using ICOCA cards. But I thought, should we got plenty
of time now before we get to Kyoto. If we just walk the additional 13 minutes
to the JR station, we can use those passes. So we won’t be paying anything
for this train journey to Kyoto. This is the route we’re
taking from Nara Station. We departed at 5:37, and we should be arriving in Kyoto Station at 6:25. This is the rapid service, so it only
makes selected stops along the route. That’s the exit we want. I still haven’t seen any vending
machines yet that aren’t drinks. They’re meant to have all sorts:
cheeseburgers, pizzas, noodles. Now, I haven’t told Matthew or Holly
about what’s special with this hotel. There’s something very special about this
hotel, and I haven’t told you about. It’s a robot, isn’t it? What, Matthew?
Is there robots in it? it might be. What?
was I actually correct? That is correct. They are robots, but I don’t think you’re
going to know what type of robots they are. Transformers?
No. No. So what do you think? This is a very special hotel,
and people don’t even work in it. There’s no people Oh, it’s green light. Let’s cross the road. Instead of people,
I’ve worked outside the house. Yeah, there’s no people working in it. Yeah.
What happens if there is a fire. And we need to be escorted out of it i don’t know, but let’s get
ready, shall we? And see what it looks like inside. Is it-I think. I think it’s just a little bit over here. I picked this hotel for two reasons. One is it’s right next to Kyoto Station. So when we’re leaving Kyoto to Tokyo
in a couple of days time, we’re going to be carrying our cases
I wanted to make it as easy as possible. I think we’re here now and you will see
the main reason for staying in this hotel. What, Holly?
It looks like an animal. An animal?
It looks like a fish. It’s not a fish.
Ready? Shall we go inside our new hotel?
Yeah. What, Matthew? They’re dinosaurs. They are dinosaurs. Okay, let’s go in and have a look. Are you ready for a dinosaur
to check us into our hotel? Hello. Lets select…. [foreign language]
okay. I’m here to get this phone. I think that’s the second
offer in college. Please confirm. Please confirm the agreement
and precautions regarding accommodation. Okay, I sure will,
dino okay, so I just got to put my name in. The payment machine will
issue your room card. Okay, so then we just- Select
the number of card to issue. So we just have two cards. Your room card will be issued. This part functions as your
room- Okay, where is that? There’s one card. This part functions as your room keys. Two cards. Thank you very much.
Please take your receipt. Please enjoy your stuff.
Thank you. Okay.
Lots of receipts coming out. How many receipts do we need? I think the dinosaurs are going a bit crazy. Is that all of them? Yes. Okay, so there’s all our receipts.
Holly, do you want to… It might be for our breakfast,
so I’m going to… Hello. Welcome to here, to our hotel.
Thank you. I think all these receipts
are our breakfast coupons. So there’s three of us for two nights. So that’s six receipts for six breakfasts. Can we say bye-bye to the dinosaur? So we’re in room 513,
so let’s go up to our hotel room wellcome to Henn Na Hotel please select check
in on the touch point.. Holly’s just said that there’s
some fish on the floor. I think you get your amenities from down
here rather than him being in the room. We don’t really need any
of these at the moment. If we do, we’ll come down and get some. Hopefully, our pack should be in the room. We’re in 513, which is this way. We relax for a little bit now. Let’s have a room tour, shall we? This is room 513. As you come in,
we have got full length mirror on the wall there, place to put
your room keys, so we have power. Got some slippers there. I’ll start off in the bathroom, I think,
first, and we’ll come around to the main part of the room. Here’s the bathroom. We have a sink, some towels, hair dryer, Here, toothbrushes, some soap all. Then in here is the bath and shower. So it’s a wet room. That seems to be pretty common
so far on our trip here in Japan. There we go. Then we’ll come into the main room. So this is a triple family room. So you got three single
beds, one each for us. There’s Matthew relaxing. Then over here, we got a TV, desk area. Got a kettle down there, some mugs. We’ve got a fridge in the corner. Is there a safe there above it, Holly?
by the look of it. Yeah, that’s a safe. Got air conditioning unit,
or it might be an air purifier or a HEPA filter, actually. Yeah, and that’s
the Aircon remote control. Then this is a view from our window. We’re overlooking the Double tree
by Hilton and a building site. It’s really close to the station. So just to our left-hand side,
that way, is the Kyoto train station. But that’s our room. Really quick tour. If you are interested in booking this
hotel room or this hotel, I purchased it from trip.com. When I went online looking for a hotel
for Kyoto, I wanted something unique with these dinosaurs
stores that checked you in. So I knew I wanted to stay here.
So I checked trip.com’s website, hotels.com’s website, booking.com’s website, Agoda,
and Expedia for this one. And the trip.com was slightly cheaper. So that’s why I booked it via trip.com. And if you’re interested in finding more
information about this hotel on trip.com’s website,
I’ll leave a link in the description down below, or you can click this QR code
on the screen now and it’ll go directly to their site. I think we’re going to relax a little bit
more and then probably go out and get some dinner in Kyoto. And I just realised I didn’t
show you the toilet itself. So there you go. Obviously, it’s a Japanese-style toilet. So your bidet function
gets you nice and clean. And in the room as well, we’ve got
this folder with hotel information. So how to use the air conditioner remote
control, how to use the TV remote control, all the things, environmentally
friendly things that the hotel is doing. Then the important one
for us is breakfast tomorrow. So it’s a buffet breakfast. That’s why we had all these receipts. Each one of those is for all
of us to have breakfast. I did notice there is a door
to an Irish bar that’s next door, so that’s a link to the hotel. I’m thinking maybe they might do
breakfast there in the morning as well. And according to the sign in the elevator,
floor three has some vending machines. So I might go and take a look at what’s
in those vending machines now. So we got to go to the third floor
and check out those vending machines. Third floor, vending machines,
ice machine microwave. The second floor, laundry,
and the first floor, obviously, reception. Okay. A very small room. So there’s the microwave. That’s the ice machine.
Yes. There’s the vendor machine. There’s the ice machine. What drink shall we get? Water, ice tees, and coffees.
What’s that? Is that a peach? Nectar fruit drink, peach flavour.
Is that the name of that? Yeah, of course. It should give some change.
Press that, yeah. There it is. It should give you a 50 change. Great. They have a Manga library
as well in Reception. We’ve just been back down to Reception
to collect our luggage because we dropped these off this morning
in our previous hotel. I booked it last night and then
a transportation service sent it all the way here to our hotel in Kyoto. So we got our luggage. I think for two cases,
it came to just over 5,000 ¥, so about £25, which that saved carrying it
today on those two different trains well, three different trains, and leaving it in a locker in Nara. You think? Relax a little bit longer
and then go get something to eat? Yeah.
So we’ve left the room. We’re going to walk around the local
neighbourhood having a look around and also trying to spot a restaurant
where we can have our dinner. As we were walking around, we found this
hole in the Wall, an Okonomiyaki place. It looks really interesting. The food smelled great. We come in and ordered some. I was hoping to have Okonomiyaki in Osaka
over the last few days, but we just didn’t get a chance to get around to doing it. I’m quite happy that I found that this
hole in the wall, so I can actually get to experience it. And this is what I’ve ordered,
the Abeck Okonomiyaki with beef, oil cake, egg, green onion, squid, fish cake, udon,
and sober noodles. We’ve also gone for a curry yaki soba,
with yaki soba with curry sauce, and some beef tendon on there as well. Here we go. This one is the curry soba with beef,
and that’s the Okonomiyaki. Time to dig in, I think. I think Holly’s just
having all the beef off it. Let’s try this, shall we. So this is the Curry Yaki Soba. A bit of beef. Tastes really good.
Really nice. We’re back at the hotel. We stopped off at Lawson’s along the way
to get ourselves some drinks and some snacks from the room,
but it’s been a really busy day, so I think we’re going to end this video here. If you’re made to the end,
thank you so much for watching. It’s really appreciated. If you’re new here, my name is Mark,
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Join us as we spend the day in Nara Japan feeding the Deer that bow to you when you give them a cracker. We got to Nara on a train from Osaka and then went by train to Kyoto.
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We started the day in Osaka before going by train to Nara on the Nara Kintetsu Line.

We then spend a couple of hours in Nara Park feeding the Deer by hand before going to Todaiji Temple.

Todaiji Temple is one of Japan’s most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara. The temple was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan and grew so powerful that the capital was moved away from Nara in 784 in order to lower the temple’s influence on government affairs.

We had some traditional lunch of Katsu Curry before catching a train from Nara to Kyoto.

In Kyoto we checked into our Hotel The Henn na Hotel Kyoto Hachijoguchi, a hotel that is run by robot dinosaurs.

We finish the evening by having some traditional Okonomiyaki for diner.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Universal Studios Japan City Walk
03:53 Train from Osaka to Nara
08:55 Nara Train Station
09:11 Nara Deer Park – Feeding the deer in Nara
23:01 Todaiji Temple Nara
31:02 Food in Nara Japan
35:46 Train from Nara to Kyoto
38:53 Henn Na Hotel Kyoto – Robot Dinosaur Hotel
46:59 Okonomiyaki