But, there are deer everywhere. Above are a couple of the deer in Nara.
Above is a deer waiting for some food outside the worlds largest wooded building, Nara. But deer's are actually a popular tourist attraction in other locations in Japan.
Above is a deer on the island of Miyajima, just south of Hiroshima.
Miyajima is known for O-torii, the large orange gate above.... AND and and the worlds largest spatula!!
It took almost 3 years to make that.
And inside the world largest wooden building is the largest Buddha in Japan:
This one is 50ft tall, but I guess there is a larger one somewhere else... Nara is between Nagoya and Osaka.
Above is the A-bomb dome seen through the cenotaph. The park and museum is amazing and difficult to describe. Below is a statue of Sadako Sasaki and a memorial to children.
It was kind of funny, almost instantly upon arriving at the peach park groups of four kids would rush up to me and say "can, can, can we... can we ask you a quest--ion?"
It turns out they were mostly from Osaka on a school trip to Hiroshima, and I think there assignment was to talk to foreigners. These kids had difficult questions too, like "what do you think about war" and "can you write a message for peace?" And they wanted me to write my message on a piece of paper, partly because I think it was difficult for them to understand English. By the end of the day, I wrote about 10 messages of peace, even evoked Obama's name in a couple of them. Here is another view looking south, the A-bomb dome is on the left and peace park is on the right.
Below is the Peace Museum.
This restaurant was just east of the peace park, just north of the Tokyu Inn across the street from Lollipop. Once you complete your order, this guy get's to work.
This bar was really nice. It's U-shape, 90% of the surface is the cooking area and once your dish is ready they just push it to you. The table keeps it warm, so you can take your time eating. Here is the final dish:
It might look weird, but its really really good. Hiroshima style is layered batter, cabbage, pork cheese with yakisoba noodles and fried egg and a generous amount of okonomiyaki sauce.
... The first time I tried this dish was actually in Lynnwood, WA, but that was Osaka style. I think I like Hiroshima style more.
Look at that focus, but I think my fingers are to fat to make this kind of stuff correctly.
In total, 26 gyoza were assembled, I tried to fold 4 of them in the time the other 22 were made.
Yep, Ustunomiya style. On the right hand side of the photo above is two bowls of rice, each with salt but one with little fish and the other with Ume added. Ume is a Japanese sour fruit (simular to apricot or plum), the rice is being used to make onigiri or Japanese rice balls.
This is the final onigiri dish, they are both really good and healthy. Please feel free to come over for dinner, I think I should be able to make this again!!
Above is the Gyoza recipe.... good luck.
Also in the NASA image is China, the land mass in the upper right; Luzon Philippines is the bottom center and southern Japan in the upper left under Typhoon Melor. When this photo was taken, Melor was a supper Typhoon with sustain winds of 120mph and burst up to 150mph, this was 2 days ago. 
I woke up around 3am and took this photo:
What was a super typhoon has calmed down and just a minor typhoon, in the photo above nothing is going on. The eye is actually over Nagoya, no rain, no wind, I went back to bed. The back half of the typhoon rolled through between 4am and 7am, there was lots of rain and wind but I sleep through most of this. By 8am, the storm had all ready passed and just a bunch of clouds were left over.
The only damage or effect from the storm was this:
Some water came through the mail box attached to my front door and made my shoes wet. That little mail box is where the utility companies leave receipts, those got wet too.
In Japan the weather is usually really nice after a storm, by 3pm Nagoya was blue skies.
Then I realized I had to walk to work. This happened about two months ago and I've been holding out hope that I would see my bike on my walks to and from work. Handa is a small place, I been taking different routes and different times with no luck. The bike has to be somewhere, there are other train stations before and after Kamezaki, so the bike should be parked between there... You typically ride a train as close as possible to where you to go, in order to minimize you ride on my bike.