Sky traveled Nara in Nov 2022. Gangoji is one of the World Heritage Site in Nara city.
It is famous as the oldest roof tiles.
![Gangoji 元興寺 asuka](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51395507230_424297db94_c.jpg)
You may be able to see the roof tiles with brown/ white/ grey. They are roof tiles made at early late 500s to 600s, at “Asuka”. This temple was moved to this “Nara” area in 710s.
![Gangoji 元興寺](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51393733827_c756713299_c.jpg)
![Gangoji 元興寺](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51395506685_9bd6e209f7_c.jpg)
There was used to be a big temple like Todaiji, but due to the fire, it was shrunken and shrunken.
![Gangoji 元興寺 roof](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51395228074_0200ffaf22_c.jpg)
They don’t allow you to take photos of the museum, I could see really old stuffs found in this temple area, and they have an Archaeology laboratory, there are many interesting things, but I don’t remember that whether there were English or other languages.