8:50am:

10:20 Miyako train Kyoto-Nara
Above is the train Alex recommended I catch in Kyoto to get to Nara. I’m being silly stubborn right now. It would be faster to go through Osaka. This train will stop at Shin-Osaka station and from there a train to Nara. This would be distinctly faster. However in my mind I associate Kyoto with Nara because they’re listed together in the guidebooks and my “brain” (not the reasonable bit, of course) wants to go to Kyoto then Nara. And I just saw yet another Ferris wheel.