晴れ時々曇　べた凪そよ風

I visited ancient lands with my wife and son.
At the first, we visited Kohfukuji temple where many national treasures are preserved.
In particular, I decided to visit the five-storied pagoda because it will be closed for a while due to restoration.




Of course, photography is prohibited inside all buildings.
In the National Treasure Museum, many national treasure Buddha statues were kept, which was a masterpiece.
However, in my personal opinion, compared to Yakushiji Temple and Toshodaiji Temple, which are also in Nara, the impression was weak.
However, it is very Nara-like that there are many deers because it is close to Nara Park where Todaiji Temple is located.
I had booked a restaurant for lunch near Kofuku-ji Temple, and the service and food were very good.










The accommodation is the Nipponia Tawarahonn-machi Maruto Shoyu Hotel, which was renovated from an old soy sauce brewery in Tawaramoto-machi, Nara Prefecture.
This hotel is new, but the food was so highly rated that my family decided to book it.
Shortly after check-in, the hotel owner suggested that he explained about soy sauce and let us experience making soy sauce.
Moromi is made by adding bacteria to soybeans, wheat, and salt and letting it mature for at least two years.
Then squeezing it makes soy sauce.



We ate baked rice cake with soy sauce that we squeezed.
The freshly squeezed soy sauce has a very fragrant and mellow taste, which surprised me.


The building of the hotel retains the taste of a mansion everywhere. Even just looking at the ranma and tokonoma is truly a work of art.










There is no clock or television in the room. In a rapidly changing world, this hotel makes us forget the passage of time.


It's time for dinner.
This is the dinner menu.
There is a list of sauces arranged with soy sauce.
It was my first time to see such a menu, but we were really looking forward to what kind of dishes would be served.














I forget to take a picture of the dessert.
All the sauces cooked from the same soy sauce were different in flavor.
We were able to enjoy the wonderful food that lives up to its reputation.
The next morning, before breakfast, we took a walk to Muraya Shrine under the morning sun with the guidance of the hotel owner.
After checking out, we visited Omiwa Shrine, the oldest in Japan.


On the way home, we stopped by Iga-Ueno, which we visited last time, to end our two-day, one-night trip.
My family's travels, whether domestic or overseas, tend to be more food-hopping trips than sightseeing trips.