Todaiji Temple

On Christmas morning we got up early and headed to Nara to see the Todaiji Temple, the world’s largest wooden building featuring the world’s largest bronze-gilded Buddha and surrounded by the world’s peskiest deer.

It’s quite a site – one of Japan’s greatest treasures of antiquity infested with a bunch of tame deer mooching food from the tourists and shitting all over the place.

I lit some incense and prayed for the deer’s demise. Sadly, nothing.