Throwing ourselves straight back into the complicated train system after yesterday maybe wasn’t the wisest idea, but turned out to be totally worth the hassle as we journeyed towards Yoshikien and Isu-en.
Even the most simple gardens out here have a natural lure, you can’t help but want to sit for hours and listen to the trickle of the streams which seem to float rather than fall between the rocks. All around are tiny white buds blooming on the trees, and every now and then a stronger gust of wind will race past, making the branches creak like the soft hum of a violin, and sending a volley of petals downwards to land among the millions of others pattering the ground like snow.
And peering through the trees of the vast forest that curled around the gardens, we caught our first glimpse of the famous Nara deer, the watchers of the woods that people travel many miles to see.
