Todai-ji, onsen and ramen

Today was our last classic sightseeing day in Japan. We headed to Nara to see the todai-ji temple. It`s world`s biggest wooden building. After that we met our friend Masa in Kyoto and went to Onsen. It`s a Japanese hot bath. Like finnish swimming pool, but the water is hot and surrounded by Japanese garden. Onsen was really great experience. Only two strange things: 1) There is (of course?) tv in Sauna 2) In mens section there is Female staff. We also got a lot of stares from local people. I think not every day gaijin come to onsen where there is no romanji or hiragana characters in names and no english.

After onsen we went to kyoto station for Ramen. It was really good. I had pork ramen and it tasted like christmas ham. Ramen is so far best Japanese food we have tasted.


Relaxing in Nara with the deer.

Todai-ji is number one shcool trip place for Japanese schools.

You are here.

Very big wooden statue. Guarding the gate. Our guide book says that this is Japan`s if not world`s finest statue carved from wood.





This picture probably shows the size of the place the best.

Yosnter and school group.

From nearby temple:





Train riding:



This is how Medic looks 60% of the day

Ramen:



Medic is suprised about the taste.

Toworrow we go to tokyo for 2 days to it will probably be abit silent here in blog.