ACTOR RASHIDA JONES on JAPAN

When I was in Kyoto filming my new show Sunny in 2022, I started a list of things that I wanted to remember once I didn't live there anymore.

- LALE ARIKOGLU

So much of what I experienced had a deep impact on me because it felt vastly different from my regular life. Like, one day, I decided to get my husband and son out of the city and visit Nara, which is about 40 minutes south and home to a Shinto house called Kasuga Taisha and a temple, Todai-ji. We had to drive along this long road to get into town, stopping at a retro vending machine carousel to buy my son a toy along the way. Eventually we turned a corner and saw deer all over the hillside. The deer in Nara are part o