Deers Everywhere : Nara Park

Nara Park (奈良公園) is a public park located in the city of Nara, Japan. The park has over 1,200 wild sika deer (シカ or 鹿 shika) freely roaming around in the park, classified as natural treasure. While the official size of the park is about 502 hectare, the area including the grounds of Tōdai-ji, Kōfuku-ji, and Kasuga Shrine, which are either on the edge or surrounded by Nara Park. Nara is famous as a tourist attraction. There are many souvenirs in Nara. The thing about deers and the great statue of Buddha is popular.

Tōdai-ji

There is a very big great statue of Buddha as well. But when I traveled there, I remember that you got to buy the ticket for every shrine.

You can feed a deer the deer rice cracker “Shika Senbei”. And once you give them the deer rice cracker, they will nod their heads as telling you "Thank you!". Even you haven't given them Shika Senbei, they know you got some they will still nod first as telling "Give me one!". These deers in Nara are so very cute and very polite just like Japanese. I love this spot and I recommend you guys to visit this lovely park.