blast radius
I awoke the next morning feeling a bit under the weather, or at least a bit exhausted after so many long days. The hotel breakfast was refreshing though, with the mix of Western and Japanese cuisine always welcome, washed down with a fairly acidic black coffee.
The plan for the day was to explore the ancient capital of Nara 奈良市, which is easily accessed via a couple of train lines. While the Kintetsu Railway 近鉄 service is faster and arrives closer to the main sightseeing area, I decided on the JR service that alights at Nara Station 奈良駅 a few blocks to the west. This afforded a bit of city sightseeing too.
Here, the end of a row of little tourist shops and the south entrance of Kōfuku-ji 興福寺 where the blossoms loomed in still-life explosions of pink.