Today we have a very intense program, we move on from Kyoto to Koyasan through Nara, Kayoko complessissimo program has everything a slip of paper made of thick dense train of coincidences.
But first we visit two temples which are right next to the ryokan where we stayed.
The first, Sanjusangendo , is breathtaking: in practice, driving along a long corridor on the right of which there are 1000 life-size statues of Kannon of a 1000 arms, arranged in 10 rows. Before these 28 statues of guardian deities, and the center una statua più grande di Kannon.
E qui, nonostante ci siano tantissime persone (e sono solo le 8 e mezza di mattina), il silenzio viene mantenuto.
Poi visitiamo lo Yogenin, un piccolo tempio noto soprattutto per due elefanti dipinti sulle porte scorrevoli.
Fatto questo prendiamo i bagagli e partiamo, la prima tappa è Nara.
Avevo sentito parlare dei cervi di Nara, ma pensavo comunque che stessero dentro a un parco, invece sono così in giro liberi per la città, attraversano la strada, si fanno accarezzare, mi faccio fare una foto con loro perché non ci posso credere.
Notate l'ombrellino da sole nuovo con fantasia di fiori di ciliegio, che oggi però mi serve for rain, and the time (but it's always hot). cross the big door and enter the Todaiji .
As usual, many tourists Trips (is full of boys of elementary and middle!) only stop here, Kayoko wants me instead show that too pavilion, Nigatsudo. 
raining, but maybe it looks better that way. 
down the stairs a few girls greet me a bit 'timid, since I am a foreigner in English. Depending on where you are, there are many areas of Japan where it is still unusual to see strangers, and the trip becomes an opportunity to do this, even in Kyoto, I was greeted by some group of students.
Outside Daibutsuden other kids are doing lunch, but they greet me in English, however, known that a t-shirt has the Italian national team, then I point out the "Itariajin desu!" I'm Italian, creating a small explosion of enthusiasm! 
At the station there is a small stand of bread and bakery products, I take this green thing, evidently made with tea, thinking it will not be too sweet, but it is, and most know of Pandora. Following a lengthy explanation on the train, supported by various doodles, what a pandoro, Kayoko do not know why. 
The train is a local, we stopped a few stations further on, we need to do a piece of walking street, and I really like the countryside around us. 
In this area there are many temples, we aim straight at Toshodaiji , Kayoko that can not wait to visit again, because it was closed for renovations for several years. 
I can understand why, these statues are very old and in addition to being beautiful enact special aura. 
We go back to the train. 
And here know the sewer style Nara, with the deer! 
Today, unfortunately, will not make it to follow the roadmap Kayoko, in part because the exchange rate indicates that the computer does not take into account the line to walk between one and another, for example. At one point we walked a quarter of an hour to change trains between two stations in two different lines! But there is a final destination that I want to see at all costs, even if doing so will do a little 'late (among other things, tonight at a temple in Koyasan lodge, and when they call to warn that we may a bit 'late-late then that is the 7 / 8! - the Monaco who answered the phone yelled at her "This is a temple, hurry up!").
order not to lose too long we take a taxi from the station to ' Horyuji .
This is also a wonderful place, we do not have time to see everything, but we get to see the museum of the treasury, which contains beautiful statues. 
I'm really grateful to Kayoko for bringing me here. 
return to the station by taxi and begin the journey to the Koyasan. It 's a place in the mountains, and Kayoko remained upset when he saw how long it took to get there, what is normal for me.
(BTW, this is the mascot of the card for the trains of these parts ...)
It takes 2 / 3 hours of travel, the last part with the rack railway. Little by little, we get more and more in the woods and mountains, and I can not wait to walk here. After the funicular take the bus (where the friendly driver who is asking Kayoko tells us that the bears sometimes emerge on the road), we stopped at a small combine to buy something to eat (only the 7 and a half or so but it is already night, and being a small town Mountain is fully closed), and finally arrive at our destination.
It 's a beautiful place to-morrow I will all the documentation necessary, while we eat our instant udon (you know those boxes where you put the hot water and after 3 minutes it is ready?), We take a bath (which is hot I think I'm burned, while Kayoko dies from laughter), and go to sleep now, because tomorrow is the alarm clock at 6.
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