After lunch, we walked deep into the forest to get to our next temple, Kasuga Taisha, which I think is the coolest of the bunch although quite out of the way. There are lots of windy paths through the forest that eventually will take you here, but once you get anywhere near the place, the path is lined with thousands of stone lanterns, which is a really striking sight. The temple itself has lots more lanterns inside, as you'll see, and twice a year, it has a lantern festival where all the walkway and temple lanterns are lit, which must take forever. It's a Shinto temple, built by the powerful Fujiwara family as their family temple when Nara was capital.