A little fountain outside Namba station |
The street outside the station. Huzzah! |
Trees! Actual trees! |
Lots of them! |
No, wait, that's a rock |
The first deer sighting |
These guys are kind of tame. Probably because the people keep feeding them. |
"Pidgeon, you best not be stealin' my crackers..." |
For the record, I'm hardly using any zoom on these pictures. |
Deer are shameless kleptomaniacs. Watch your handbags. |
Do not panic if the deer attempt to high-jump over you. It's tradition. |
Deer are terrible at cornering. Also, hurr hurr, you said butt. |
Spaghetti people will be attacked on sight. |
There were more deer no matter where I went. |
She has food! DESTROY HER |
The bag has food! DESTROY IT. |
There's a little one in the middle of the mob there. |
Ah, there it is. |
Oh gosh the deerpocolypse |
Two little guys, searching for some snacks. |
And getting some from two other little guys. |
They've tasted blood. He's a goner. |
After swimming through a sea of deer, I finally made it to the temple. |
This is just the front gate; it's kind of a big place |
So big, it needs two front gates. |
And this is the temple |
It's the largest wooden structure in existence. |
And pretty too. |
I AM TEMPLE. I SHALL NOM THESE TOURISTS |
OM NOM NOM |
Pictures really can't capture the scale of this thing |
This is the main statue it houses. |
For scale, this is one of the leaves the statue sits on |
This is the temple as it once was. Those towers are BIGGER than the temple. |
The complementary fire bucket. |
The original temple. |
And this is the temple now. |
Note the difference in width. This is a smaller version of the temple. |
Well, since you asked nicely.... |
The grounds are pretty nice too. |
EAT ALLLLL THE TOURISTS |
Couldn't have asked for better weather. |
I can only buy one shop? Nuts. |
D'awwww. |
The little guy's a mite spooked by all the attention. |
I only wish I could get the audio for this. He was crying for his mama. |
I don't even know what to do with this. |