Prepared noodles as breakfast, we shared a big cup which I think it’s just nice for both of us.
Bought Nissin’s new nugget and fries cup noodles. Looks interesting. The little pieces of meat really taste like nugget, whereas the fries… hmm… not so much. It’s like Jagabee potato sticks in soup. Nothing amazing about it, soup is just normal chicken soup.
The strawberries we bought the last time was sweeter. This has the sour note.
My favourite chocolate cake from Family Mart!
Out shopping and TC wants to get a Cremia to try, I had a little bit, it was soooooooo milky. I cannot.
So I got a chocolate waffle to wash down the milky taste.
Shopping got crazy when we were at Muji. Everything is so much cheaper than Singapore! some of them are even like 40% lesser because got sales. We bought things like cutlery, flooring mop, portable diffuser… Click here to see what other interesting Muji items that you can only get in Japan.
So we had to travel all the way back to our Airbnb to drop the stuffs, wouldn’t want to be carrying the bags around Nara.
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Dropped by Coffee House Abuki for some food.
Fluffy egg & ham sandwiches, honey toasts and coffee. Simple fare but sooooo good.
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Heading to Todai-ji Temple!
Pick acorns and see deers.
Enjoy the scenery.
Almost there!
Shunie is not at the main temple. We have to travel up to another site.
I guess these will be the bamboos that the monks will be using for Shunie later.
Always arrive early to get a good view! Shunie starts exactly at 7pm, so it will be good to reach at least an hour earlier.
Remember to prep some food and drinks too, just in case.
The crowd.
Oh. Let me give some background information first.
“Shunie, a series of events held annually from March 1 to 14 at Todaiji Temple. This collection of Buddhist repentance rituals has been held every year for over 1250 years, making it one of the oldest reoccurring Buddhist events in Japan.
Omizutori is performed at Nigatsudo Hall, a sub-complex of Todaiji, which stands not far from the temple’s main hall on the slope of a hill. Nigatsudo literally means “second month hall”, referring to the second month of the lunar calendar, when Omizutori has traditionally been held. The second month of the lunar calendar roughly corresponds to March of the solar calendar.”
You can find more information here.
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The fireworks is so awesome, ‘wow’ every single time.
It has been a good day.
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Onigiri to fill us up a bit before dinner.
Although they are salmon cooked in different styles but very salty.
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Beef don at Sukiya!
laa laabi 