Nara is a prefecture next to Osaka.
My house is in Nara-city.
I hope you could know about my hometown Nara.
This city used to be a capital of Japan about 1300 years ago in Nara era. Because of that, it has a lot of historical places and shrines. For good example, Daibutsu, the Great Buddha of Todaiji, is very famous. It is the biggest wooden architecture in the world.
Around Todaiji, it is Nara Park. In the park, there is lots of deer. Many couples of deer have babies in this season. So if you go there, you can see baby deer following their parents.
Nara is going to have special festival in 2010.
2010 is 1300th anniversary of having relocated the capital to Nara.
We have a mascot for the festival. His name is "Sento", which means relocating the capital, and he has horns like deer. I do not like him so much. How about you?
from: http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0806/02/news073.html#l_yuo_manto_02.jpg
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Nice pictures. You provide some general information about Nara, but I would like to more know detail about your particular neighborhood. Provide information through your text and photos about what only you know rather than famous things like Todaiji, Nara Park and Sento-kun. These things are more tourist type places rather than neighborhood areas, don't you think?
I was just in Nara this Sunday! It was really interesting to me how both Japanese people and foreigners all seemed to behave the same way with the deer: awe and delight. Everybody wanted to pet and feed the deer, and everybody got chased by the deer. It was interesting. ^_^
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