If you are ever in the Kansai area, you definitely have to visit Nara! Nara (奈良市, Nara-shi?) is the capital city of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The city occupies the northern part of Nara Prefecture, directly bordering Kyoto Prefecture. And Nara was a fantastic suggestion of Benard where I had a great time there! 
Firstly, Nara is approximately 60 minutes from Osaka via the JR. As Nara isn’t on the circle, I half wondered if I was getting lost whilst in the midst of attempting to translate English – Chinese – Japanese words on the board whilst getting by with very little Japanese except どうもありがとう. Nara is quite quaint with nice little stores and cute eateries, but what went well was definitely the deers, or naras (as I call it). I started buying nara biscuits and then I realized that you can have every single nara chasing you. They also started eating my map, so probably if you are a student there you can say that the nara ate your homework.
I also ate more soba (great store btw) and Okonomiyaki! Since nobody understands me here I kept hoping that I got something at least right, so far I haven’t gotten anything weird to eat so it works.
And well, of course I stepped into a Japanese drugstore and its one of those OMFGZ moments in life when you want to buy up the entire store. I also bought alot of Jill Stuart cosmetics.
Till Kobe!
xoxo, Summerrainx
