Nara City Tourist Information Center — Attraction in Nara

my family and I haven't visited Nara for so long and wanted to come back to this beautiful city, although the I did some research on what to do and where to go I'd like to reconfirm it with the tourist information center. I went into the middle counter and this lady was very unwelcoming from the start, no smile no greetings. I open the map and reconfirm with her which is the best route to go and she just hand me a leaflet use a pencil to mark on it and actually say "you can go read it yourself" and "do you need anything else" with a stern face. I've visited Japan more than 20times in my life and have never met a Japanese with this attitude. I decided to just go over the next counter because the lady next to her explains everything so throughly and was very welcoming and kind. don't go to this lady she's extremely unhelpful with poor attitude. she shouldn't be...

Please stop by and visit if you are in Nara! The staff here are incredibly welcoming, and super helpful. We stopped here to use the prayer facilities, and whilst we were waiting, a friendly member of staff offered to teach us to make origami. We sat and made origami deer, they wrote out our names in Japanese, and even the meaning and how to write it. They made us feel very welcome, we ended up spending close to 30mins here, because of how sweet they were!

Can't recommend this...

Nara YMCA run goodwill English tours from the information centre if you're lucky enough to see them there or pre-book (type eggnaragg/home into google). Our guide Yukari Tanaka spent four hours of her time showing us around Nara and had a great passion for what she was showing us. Me and my partner feel blessed to have had such a great person donate their time to show us around and was a highlight...