At around 9:00 a.m. on January 23, a deer wandered into the Kyoto Gyoen National Garden, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto. Garden officials worked to capture the animal which was caught at around 1:40 p.m. near the Kyoto Guard Station of the Imperial Guard Headquarters.
According to officials, the deer, a one-meter-long male, had been prancing around the garden for several hours. Cornered once near the garden at the site of the Konoe Residence on the north side of the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the deer was nearly captured in a net, but broke through and continued its escape.
According to the Kyoto Prefectural Government's security email service, there were several sightings of a deer running on the sidewalks on the west side of the University Hospital of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and near intersection of Kawaramachi Street and Imadegawa Street between 11:30 p.m. on January 22 and midnight on January 23. It may be the same deer that appeared in the garden.
The email urged, "If you see the deer, do not approach it nor provoke it unnecessarily by yelling or making noise."
