Two Tourists in Nara and Osaka
History of Japan
Isaac Meyer
4.8 • 744 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, a trip to two seats of the Imperial government. Also on the agenda: A really big Buddha statue, plenty of sake, and some very hungry deer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dimitri recording a quick intro right before Isaac's intro. |
| 0:05.7 | Isaac forgot when we sat down to record this episode how extremely jam-packed his itinerary for this trip was. |
| 0:12.8 | So to prevent this episode from running ridiculously over history of Japan's normal 30-minute time, |
| 0:19.2 | I've split this episode up into two roughly 30-ish-minute |
| 0:23.6 | parts. The final part of our conversation about our trip to Japan will be released next week. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 497, where we're just going to get right back into it. Last week, we were doing |
| 0:56.6 | some discussions of travels in Japan with our special guest star, my co-traveller, and also |
| 1:04.3 | astonishingly my spouse, Demetria, who is here to talk a little bit more about some of the |
| 1:10.6 | other things we saw in Japan, |
| 1:12.1 | what we recommend, what we don't, and give a little perspective on visiting the country, |
| 1:19.1 | both from my nerdy history perspective and Demetria's interested non-expert perspective. |
| 1:25.6 | What was cool? |
| 1:26.3 | What wasn't cool? |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah, ready to get't cool? Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | Ready to get into it? |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.3 | If you think we've talked a lot about shrines and temples so far, you ain't heard |
| 1:34.0 | nothing yet. |
| 1:35.5 | Okay. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, now that you've said that, I feel like we have to immediately talk about Nara. |
| 1:40.6 | So those of you who listened to the podcast, of course, remember that Nara was one of the old capitals of Japan. |
| 1:49.1 | Before Kyoto, uh, Nara was the capital back. |
| 1:52.9 | Oh, now this is the part where I have to do a pull from my head and I don't want to embarrass myself in, I believe it was, |
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