Exploring the Majestic Buddha Todai-ji Temple in Nara | Travel Vlog 🇯🇵

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Wow, look how big this Buddha is guys, it's gigantic
Isn't this amazing guys? Check it out
This is not as Japan
Did you feed the deer?
No, yeah get here
But just be careful there's a lot sometimes too much deer
Oh my god, look at this
The funny thing is I have biscuits right now in my pocket. I could divert their energy, but
Should I?
They're chasing they're chasing
And i'm stepping in poop too
I got this one
This is how the card packet looks like. It was 180 japanese yen
Okay, so I just came across the street right now. So we were just over there and thank god the sun is coming out
so it's better for recording and uh
Check this out guys. I did not know that there's so many more things to do over here, too
Because obviously i'm exploring the city with you
And uh, so it looks like over here. There's like some park with a lot of trees
Then over here it continues it looks like we're going towards a gigantic temple, which I have been to before
But I went to like around like five o'clock at night
And there's more deer over here
A lot of souvenir shops and whatnot and more of the park. It's amazing how big it is. I did not know that
Then also if you want to buy biscuits, I think you can too
From this area too. I don't know where you can find the biscuit lady
but uh
Also, there's rickshaws here too, so you want to take a little rickshaw ride you can do that as well
And then something I want to show you real quick just as i'm walking
That's one of my subscribers shout out to you bruce wayne
That you told me that there is a hill that you could go on and I believe it's just right over there
It looks kind of far. I don't know if we're gonna
Do that in this video. I might I might not
Have been walking quite a few
Miles kilometers, whatever you want to say leave this guy here. I don't have no biscuit. Sorry. He's been drooling
What am I that tasty?
How many biscuits in my hand? I just saw him looking at me and drooling
This is what this is what happens when you're traveling solo walks
Oh, I probably like stepped in like so much duty right now. Look at all this
Whatever. I'll wash my shoes later. But uh, yeah, it looks like an amazing hill top
Oh, I don't know if I should do that if I if I go on the hill, I think I need to grab some water beforehand
But uh
So beautiful man, I don't know. I just the sun came out. It's really nice
Is it amazing?
Yeah, let me know in the comment section below
There's pigeons and there's a deer. It's so funny. They're competing for the food
Oh, man. Okay. Let's let's go to uh
To the street and just see how it is
Oh and something else guys, uh, let me see if I could actually you know, yeah, I go over here and show you
Something else guys what I got is I got more pokemon cards. Yes
So if you know me i'm a big fan of pokemon in japan, they have cheap pokemon cards
So let me show you the pokemon card packet I got and hopefully we get a holographic today last time
Well last time you have to see the previous video to this, but let's open up this pokemon card
Pack and see how it is because every uh
Yeah, let's just adjust the camera real quick
There we go, yeah, so every uh what I want to say
Every year or like every few years they have different series of pokemon cards. So currently
I got this one
This is how the card packet looks like. It was 180 japanese yen
And let's see what we got
I hope I get a holographic
Oh
We are getting some interesting cards
So the card pack itself comes with one two, three, four five and I did see the cards already sorry guys, but
First card is this one
Mr. Elephant man
I don't know this new pokemon card
we have the
bat over here, which is
Also forgot his name too, but I know his original pokemon
We have this bird thing over here
owl owl man
Man, I wish it was in english. I can't I can't say the names
But we got we got and then we also got I got I got a good card
But first I want to show you the rest and then we got this guy over here, too. He's the second formation of uh,
The guy with the spoons. I forgot his name man
Been a long time guys, but I used to always play with pokemon, but we got a holographic guys
And we got this one. Check it out
Let me know in the description below
I believe he's the yeah, he's evolved form of this little elephant guy over here
so here let me just
Show you guys real quick
Let me know are these good pokemon cards?
I finally got a holographic. Okay, awesome because the last time I may have not got a holographic just check it out
It's the first nara video I watched. I mean the first video nara video I recorded really cool
I love to collect pokemon cards when I was little now not really but I think I might get back into it because it seems
Like a good thing and it could be worth a lot of money because uh, there's a lot of pokemon card shops over here
That's are selling holographics and everything. I saw one card for like three hundred thousand japanese yen or something crazy like
Thousands of dollars just for a pokemon card. So
May have to get back into it
Okay
Now let's go explore
The area but I was like I was going to open up the pack before I recorded this video
Because I just I just like to see it but I was like, you know
Let me just uh do it on camera and show you guys more about it
Let me see what is this one adults
I want to just show you guys the prices if you are curious in the rickshaw just to show you guys
I'm, just curious to show my friends how much the prices are
One so one one adult 12 minutes is four thousand thirty. Okay. So one adult here you guys can see one adult four thousand
Thirty minutes nine thousand you guys can see the price list two adults. That's the price list. And yeah
And then it just goes up and up up in time
And he takes you I guess all around
Uh, there you go. There you go
Okay
Please adjust the selfie stick to the shortest to prevent accidents
Just like the rules so they have a lot of rules I guess, uh,
For example, I think have you had too much to drink so you can't drink or are you expecting you're pregnant?
This there's a lot of rules, but uh, he'll take you like all around the city
All right. Thank you two so much
I'm a youtuber. So I want to show my friends. Thank you
You too. I mean well enjoy nara
He said have a nice trip and I said you too well, I guess life is a trip so enjoy your trip in life
whoever's watching
All right. Now, let's explore this cool area
together I
I've been to the temple before but I think I took another way to get to this temple
And just to let you know like what time it is it is currently
3 54 in the afternoon
Let's let's walk around
So as I told you they told well, they told me that they stopped selling deer biscuits in a half an hour
So if I find a deer biscuit place, I'll let you know
little souvenir shop
And keep in mind currently one dollar usd equals 159 japanese yen
So we have like things over here for like two dollars and fifty cents
Just for an idea
A lot of deer stuff ice cream, too
Let me show you the flavors they have vanilla vanilla green tea green tea strawberry white peach
Honey and lemonade that actually sounds pretty good. I'm gonna total for 850
Uh
Look at that they're all going crazy over the biscuit. It's funny
Oh so funny
I think the deers over here since they've seen so many human beings over the time. They're just not like when you see humans
Time to get your crackers
This is a really cool street. Honestly, uh
I'm, so surprised. I haven't been here before
Look at this
Show you something like biscuits and souvenirs they have over here like 755
So like anything less than a thousand is gonna be like like less than like six dollars usd
They have these look at this 650 which is pretty good
10 for 650
Um
Oh, look at this they're all want they all want this guy
Oh, that's so funny
No
Uh, it's funny
A lot of chinese tourists. I don't know if I just mentioned that but yeah, you just honestly when you come to like so many
tourist sites, it's like sometimes you're like mind blown just like how many different things you see and
Look at this
Check this out. I don't know if these are real samurai swords, but they have I guess these are probably just for show 18 000
And the real authentic ones could go for a lot higher price
Yeah, definitely. I don't think they're authentic. But yeah, the real samurai swords could go for like
two thousand dollars
If I was going to go back to my family, uh, I definitely buy it for them
I buy some snacks and stuff and just let you guys know just check the ingredients before because some will
maybe contain pork and stuff because I know I have a lot of muslim followers, so just to let you guys to
know and
Man, I have to pay attention to the ground. It's weird
It's like I have to pay attention like talking to the camera showing you guys what's up, but then also like the environment as well
Oh, oh, they're gonna attack this kid
He got he gots the biscuits
I'm gonna see if i'm gonna go get some more biscuits from this lady over here
Look at this. Oh, they're gonna attack the family. Look at this. These are wilding out going crazy
Oh, man
Too much poop
All right. Now we are going to go
and find some
Crackers
I think i'm gonna buy two. No, sorry. I'm gonna buy. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna buy like two little bundles of crackers because uh,
I know they're gonna finish once we're done and I may want to give to some people later. Look at this
They're just approaching me
You want me to pet you i'll pet you
I don't have any I don't have any crackers. Look at this. He thinks I got no crackers
No crackers for you
I literally like the smells i'm getting this feels like i'm out of form
Okay
How many
Okay, I think I will get uh
There we go
200 hold on
Yeah, yeah, I have changes sorry, wait, hold on
Look as i'm buying the guy knows like very smart
And then hold on
Yeah, yeah two each uh, no, I have this I have 500. Okay, that's better. Sorry
Do you have do you have a bag? Do you have plastic plastic bag?
Yeah, this is better because because I I don't want them to see
I don't want the ito's telling the lady. I don't want them to see the crackers. There we go
This is the 100, okay
Okay, well anyways we got the crackers which is nice
Here it is, but I have to move away from the old the deers. There are too many over here
Too many
crazy
crazy crazy
Thing right now I spent like a
Dude, I think it was well worth I spent like a thousand japanese yen for all these crackers
Let me just give one to one deer
Just in the spirit of buying
Let's see. Let's let's just throw it
Oh
Just want to see who could follow me. Oh, look at this. We got the platoon
Oh my and the following too and the baby wants it. Oh my god, we can't give that look at this
Chasing the chasing
And i'm stepping in poop, too
Okay
Enjoy guys
Oh, there's there's still following me man
Let's go to the temple and see how it is
Yes, let's go
I do want to go on the hillside, but honestly, I don't know if we're gonna have time in this video
All right, let's continue on I just checked the footage real quick
and
I'm around like 30 minutes worth of footage right now. So yeah
Oh my god, look at this
The funny thing is I have biscuits right now in my pocket. I could divert their energy but
Should I no, let's just watch this lady
Are you gonna throw it? Yeah
Oh my god, this is too funny
They're hungry dears I better leave too because they might clock that I have this
That was funny
All right, check this out this is a really cool temple here in nara japan
Which i'm not 100 sure what it is called
but uh
Maybe i'll put on the screen let you guys know what it is after I actually, you know, I could find out right now
Great buddha hall. I believe that's where we're entering. Yeah, we're in the south gate and we're entering great buddha hall
buddha interesting
Actually, I have a few japanese friends
And I asked them like what kind of religion you follow a lot of them tell me they're atheists. So it's pretty interesting
But anyways, yeah, let's uh, just go in here and check it out. It's really cool old authentic type of building
Okay, just recorded a little bit for instagram and uh, if you're not following me on instagram, please do
It's where I update you where i'm currently at and then also just uh, what am I doing?
It's kind of crazy just how much poo is everywhere. You have to like literally watch your footsteps
Okay, we're entering the gates awesome
Look at this dude just chilling
Wow, this is amazing
if you're into like seeing like some older temples or just uh
Sees a lot of nature definitely come to japan
And which is really nice. It's june time right now and it's in the 80s. Very nice weather
It's not too hot because usually in like other countries june time would be like one of their hottest times
But here
The 80 degrees fahrenheit, which is about like i'm just gonna talk on top of my head like 27 celsius
maybe 28
Maybe 26. I don't know
It's hard for me to convert fahrenheit and celsius on top of my head because i'm used to fahrenheit because i'm from america
It's awesome
Okay, let's continue on
and
See how it is
And I believe this temple is actually going to close so a lot of the monuments actually close around like 5 p.m
so, uh
Let's go inside of it and see how it is
Look at this deer over here
Hi, how are you? Yeah, fine. Good. Where are you from? Uh from india india. Okay, what part of india?
Are you from america?
America what part of india are you from usa? Yeah usa. What part of india are you from?
Uh gujarat rajkot rajkot north south east, uh west west I know I know chennai
I know some other places. Did you feed the deer yet?
Did you feed the deer?
No, yeah here
But just be careful there's a lot sometimes too much deer
Hello. Hi. How are you?
Are you are you from the same place? He is from in india?
Nice awesome. Where are you from? I'm from america
America, where do you come from? Uh, michigan. That's good. Yeah, michigan. You want you want deer cookie, too
I'll give you one too. Why not? Why not? Here's one second
I'll have to have to go fast because
Yeah, I'll give you two cookies
Hey, yeah
Actually, give me three just be careful when you they start attacking you give to your friends. All right. Take care guys
Yeah, because I like to it's crazy but just to see the deers give the cookies
Yes
One more please. Oh one more. Okay, fine one more. No problem. Just be careful. They're they're too crazy
Really i'm just happy to like help out people and that's why I bought extra just to like give it to other people
I didn't buy it for myself
Wow, I love this little garden area
I'm saying I love so many things but look to do like what to do and what not to do
basically
I don't I can't really decipher what's happening really but they can bite you they can kick you they can bite you and go crazy
I can't be here too long or else we get some crazy deers
Mother deer will stop nursing their fawn if people surround or touch it interesting
the little fawnlings
Oh look at this deer
Oh my dear
Look at this
Oh my god, just stepped in like a bunch of i'm trying to show you some nice footage
It's funny when you're the cameraman also the guy who's showing you everything one man show
So, please if you're not subscribed, please do
And now the question is do we go inside of this temple area or do we not?
I don't know
Let's see how much the price is if it's not that much. I think last time it'd be like 500 something or 700
Look at that people just
The whole video is basically just about the deer guys
if you guys don't like deer, maybe this is not the video for you, but
Look at this this guy this little deer is just collecting all the food everything
All right, so the entrance right there
uh
You know what?
It was a bad youtuber. I want to show you how it is, right?
Let's go inside the entrance and go inside of this building
Show you this beautiful building here in nara, japan
Just please if you're watching the video right now
If you haven't subscribed to the channel, or if you haven't hit the like button, please do it really supports me a lot
And just comments I watch this for so I know you're actually supporting me
Because I love to show you more raw footage
And just how it is is around the world how it is to like travel meet people
just like I met those guys from india didn't expect that but
Looks like they didn't have any deer biscuits. So I was like, yo, I gotta just give you some deer biscuits and see how it is
Individual or group
So i'm an individual so I go on the left entrance
Please proceed a combo ticket holder to the group. Okay, so I guess there's a combo ticket
entrance for the great buddha hall
So just before you enter the hall there are toilets too
And there are toilets around the city too, which something japan is pretty good about is having a lot of
toilets
Oh, man, i'm a little bit sidetracked
Because if we record inside of this, let me just record inside of this place. I think we might do a part three for this video
Our part. Well, this is my second hour video
So the great buddha hall only wait
So I think it 800
Okay
Hi, konnichiwa. So it's 800 for entry. Okay. Okay. So a one ticket one ticket. Okay. Yes
Uh, just one second
Yeah, I just have so many things side of my keys and everything
And also I dropped my glasses too
Okay
let's uh
Wow, check it out. So this is the temple guys. We just entered
From the previous scene and it's called todaiji temple
And also it's called great buddha hall a national treasure
because if you do know or you don't know that uh
Nara japan used to be the capital of japan
In a certain time period. So yeah should be one of japan's old. I think it's japan's oldest capital city if i'm not mistaken
Hello
Thank you
Okay, we are in we are in todaiji temple
So just before you enter the temple if you want to know some more information
you just
Scan this qr code
I may have in french espanol
uh russian
dutch korean chinese and
japanese
Audio guy audio guidance very popular 500
per set
But I think you don't need audio guidance. I am your audio guidance for today, so
Wow, isn't this amazing guys? Check it out. This is nara japan. This is nara
Man, I think I should like take a picture here or something. It's well worth it, right guys
And something because I did pay about five dollars usd to get inside of it
That's something I do want to show you is it's well maintained very clean. Look at this
all the bushes are cut pretty like
Nice and equal little riverfront over here
uh
The grass is nice and green
Caught nicely everything looks like very
upkept
Something what japanese people know how to do is they know how to upkeep everything and just you know
Just take care of everything
Something in other cities, you don't see like when you're like some monuments and stuff. You probably will not see
But man, this is beautiful
All right time to go inside
out of this temple
of todaiji temple
Water for washing and drinking
Look at this
So just before we enter the temple, I just want to show you
You can drink and you can wash
Pretty interesting
Oh, so the water is coming from over there and then it's just going through all these different types really interesting
Okay, well let's uh go inside
Man, the structure is gigantic
Really impressive. You know what? This kind of reminds me guys. This kind of reminds me of when I was in thailand
I went to the grand palace
I don't know which one is bigger, but uh, this is pretty gigantic
Okay guys
the
Let me just show you real quick. So we entered just right from there and now we are here
I love these gigantic doors. It's like we're giants
See how my sunglasses
Because it is dark and just out of respect
Wow, look how big this buddha is guys. It's gigantic
Amazing. Okay. So here's the big buddha once more
And let's just go around
So
Wow, it's really interesting and I noticed I think there's a lot of indians that come here
Because they're buddhists and this is a buddhist monument, too. That's why they come here
but just really cool just to see like how people celebrate their religion and
Yeah
You can see like the buddha isn't making a hand signal too
The hands is not completely straight
It's curved one hand is like that and then the other right hand you'd see it's like, uh
down
Let me show you real quick
Hope you can see on camera
You see a lot of people are praying too
There's some wishes and stuff
Yeah
Well, man that that statue is gigantic
And just look at the pillars too of this facility or this temple it's just like everything is just gigantic it's like
sometimes when I see uh big buildings in the world, i'm just like how how is it even made like
Especially like back then, you know, I mean like back in the days
back in the days
and which is also cool that I just have a lot of different types of like
statues and whatnot just like
This over here
and we got the
Stairs. Well, those look like really steep stairs. I would not want to climb those stairs
steep stairs are like for the rooftop and just uh
Look at that guy over here. That's
It looks amazing, right?
His name is komoku-tan
Komoku-tan
What is this? This is a reconstruction of the original temple of todai-ji on a scale of 1 to 50
That's how it used to look like
So they have these like two pillar things over here and then in the middle is the temple
And this is where we're at right now. We're in the center point
Wow, and just look at the back of this
It's amazing
donations
What is this for? This is help a child change a life
Todai-ji hospital for children formerly called something hospital. Let me see if I have some change
Let me look through my okay. So it's a hospital for children, which
I do like to help out other people when I can
By you supporting the channel. You're actually helping me to help out other people. So you're helping them out, too
Okay, let me just put some donation
inside
It's really good
Let's have out some children
Original t-shirt. Oh, so you can buy some t-shirts too. It's for just some donations, but it's closed
Donation rooftop tile donation candle. Wow. There's a lot of donations happening over here
Okay, I want to help the kids but all those donations a little bit too much
for me at least
And I don't know where you're watching this from but uh, hope you're enjoying the video
Hello
I think this is for donation for the deer
Man, there's like five or six different donation box one for like the deer
one for kids in africa, I guess
And then there's another donation box for japanese red cross
man
Yeah, there's like six or seven. I don't know. I just gave some donation
It kind of reminds me of there's like this one, uh south park episode if you guys watch south park and know about it
It's a cartoon tv show
That everyone was asking for spare change
And the guy couldn't give spare change
Well, I think he ended up giving too much spare change that the guy became broke and asking for everybody else for spare change
Well, I try to give as much as I can
Wow, the statue too looks really amazing
His name is tom on ten
Okay, and it says the exit is right over there
before we exit there is also
Another statue here too, man
It's unbelievable how big this buddha is
I think the largest buddha I seen was in thailand
But besides that uh here
It was pretty big too red ink stamp book
See, so what are they selling over here?
So we're selling some bracelets
And there's a calligraphist over there wow, that's amazing
Always love like different, uh countries. They have their special calligraphists
Just just like in china
or in uh
japan
Also in the middle east they have special calligraphists
Usually we don't get any like calligraphists in like in america. Usually it's like
I know ancient society like china the middle east or
Japan or I think korea too. They have special calligraph calligraphists, too
And yeah guys, so this was the temple
How are we doing on time?
Oh, it was a really short tour in the temple
Okay, guys, so let's uh exit the temple real quick and i'll see you
Once i'm out of here, but just in general really cool facility
I think it was worth five dollars. It's just really nice place and you can take some nice pictures, too
This is the ticket one more time
Oh, and it even shows you like, uh
The height and the feats of everything too. If you're curious you just pause the screen
And let me show you the back real quick. Oops
Yeah, the back just has a lot of english and japanese
I'll give you information like uh
Toy temple was built in nara period nara period
710 to 794
So it took them a long time to build this
almost 100 years
Yeah, here's more information. I can't pick the wind you pause the screen too if you want to
All right
Well, let's continue and investigate more of this beautiful city of japan
Okay. Well, I just exited the place which was just right over here is the exit
and uh
So just right over here you go to told taiji museum and some other
places known by my
South gate, which I have been here before which actually beautifully just go up the stairs and there's a lot of things to see
And a lot of like really nice pictures to take too. It's very beautiful area
But guys, I think i'm going to finish the video over here
Thank you so much for watching
And dear wants to sign off with me. Yeah, I just really appreciate watching
Every video that i've been posting if you haven't been please just see how my japanese series is
Big shout outs to my channel members really appreciate it. And also the people who have been giving me super chats as well
I really appreciate your support really means a lot to the channel
That being said i'm just going to be i guess investigating more of this area. I may do a part
Three of this video already did like this like the part two of my nara series
And uh, yeah guys i'm kind of tired to be honest i've been walking for a couple hours
I still have some energy but i'm kind of tired
I know when I want to record for you and I always have and try to have as much energy as possible. So
I will sign off right now
A lot of more things to do and see in ara definitely take a day trip or even a two-day trip
It's well worth your while
And let me just show you one more time the map. Yes
So the map so we're just in the great buddha hall
A lot more things to see over there
All right
Peace guys. God bless and uh, I don't want to if you want to watch more videos around the world
Click somewhere up on the screen. Well, you just click click somewhere. It just really helps me out
Yeah, anyways, peace and i'll catch you later. Love you so much for watching and i'll see you later. Bye
