Nikko
Travel Blogs from Nikko, Japan
Wax on wax off
... were just closing for the day, lucky I was staying overnight so I would head back in the morning and just enjoyed a stroll around Nikko in the sun before watching a little more Japanese TV back at the lodge, gotta love the game shows they have over here ...
Typhoon Antics
... see no hear no speak no monkeys. And seemingly home also to the foreign mega star. Living in Japan you get used to the looks of interest but Nikko was something else. Autographs requested, lots of posing (can we take your picture) in one case superstar ...
Shinkansen to a Ryokan
... in various parts of Asia but the whole Shinto thing was new to me. I've since learnt it's the indigenous religion of Japan consisting chiefly in the cultic devotion to deities of natural forces and veneration of the Emperor as a descendant of the sun ...
Nikko Take Two
... the coverage to get up and work out the Japanese controls on the room heater I was welcomed by both another sunny day in Nikko and an unexpected breakfast (was this really only 3500 Yen per night?). The owner was going "hopping" it seemed at 2pm so I'd ...
Temple Overload
... and really puts what we have to shame in the UK. This was a local train, but still quick and tilting. So the Japan adventure is over, I have loved this place...everyone should come..dont let the rubbish that its an expensive country put anyone ...
Nikko: Buddhism & Bangs!
... HUDDERSFIELD, get in!), We were up early for breakfast and headed out to beat the crowds. Despite Nikko being virtually unknown outside of Japan it is a big tourist destination for the Japanese, especially on a Saturday on a bank holiday weekend ...
Nikko
Nikko jest miejscem kultu Shinto. Liczne swiatynie rozrzucone sa na wzgorzach porosnietych wiekowym lasem (wszystko wpisane jest na liste swiatowego dziedzictwa ...
Temple town
... . Apparently this is where they originated, I never knew! There is also a carving of a sleeping kitten here that is famous throughout Japan because it is supposed to be very lifelike. Didn't really look that real to me, but what do I know. There was ...
chuzenji lake in autumn
... and that was the way to tough up a young boy. I arrived at JR Nikko station at 9.54 .The atmosphere here was very different from Tobu Nikko station I used to travel to the year ...
A ryokan beside the lake
... the calmness of the water in the lake. The room is quite large ( comparing to the previous hotels I have stayed in Japan) with a lot of spaces. A cabinet for storing the "futon" at one corner. A table with a tea pot and ...
Chuzenji lake in early morning
... and the townspeople were too familiar to the scene to go out in the cold. The front of Nikko Sansui faces the Chuzenji lake.I cross the road to walk near the deep blue water. At the far end of the lake there ...
3x 2300+ /2
A po tyzdni zase do Nikka. Tentokrat do prirody v Narodnom parku Nikko. Ked bude cas, tak napisem aj o tom, ako sme vyliezli na tri vysoke kopce, pripadne aj o tom, preco je dobre si do Nikka zobrat so sebou vela ...
Daytripper
... tanquil. On one of the stables was a discret relief carving of the famous 'hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil' monkeys. Nikko was an extremley amazing place to visit, which is really hard to do justice to writing about it. In the end the weather ...
Overnight trip to Nikko
... into Tokyo the night before, I met my buddy Trevor (a Canadian I knew in Wellington) and we jumped on the 2 hr train to Nikko. This small town is in a beautiful mountainous region and is home to a number of shrines and temples. We arrived ...
Nikko Case
... bluffs which eventually become giant snow capped peaks. nice. stepping off the train also taught me that i was wrong. japan doesn't smell weird. tokyo smells weird. nikko smells like mountains. i was relieved. i didn't and don't really have much of a ...
Nikko
... train, wait for the incredibly efficient cleaning process to take place, and then get on. We were heading for Nikko which is one of Japan's many former capitals and very well known for its beautiful temples. Getting to Nikko meant getting a ...
Our First Glimpse into Ancient Japan
... again :). We headed back to the hotel and wound down ready for our anticipated day of temple gazing at Nikko Park, one of Japan's many Unesco World Heritage Sites (and one of many on our own checklist). The morning came, coupled with ...
Tokyo Continued...
... interesting with the many rice paddy fields and Japanse architecture, but grows repetitive really fast. The temples of Nikko are indescribably beautiful. They are ornate, lavish buildings full of bright colors and sculptured imagery. This is ...
Nikko
... a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony and was very close so the pictures came out well. I read somewhere that Nikko is one of the famous places in Japan that make up what is called the Romantic Road. It is a National Park, thus the whole ...
Tokyo (again), Nikko and success!
... ; But in the end, no problem. Since I was down that way, and was able to stay at Cyril's like before, I decided to visit Nikko the remainder of Monday. Nikko is a well-known pilgrimage site 90 minutes north of Tokyo, and has a World Heritage shrine ...
Day trip to Nikko
Day trip to magnificent snow covered temples and shrines. Solo bush trek down through the Valley of Forgotten ...
Nikko is Nippon
... ) per via della zona dei templi, che tanto per cambiare sono patrimonio dell'unesco. A Tokyo mi sono svegliata con il sole, mentre a Nikko mi aspetta la solita pioggerella fine e carogna e una manciata di gradi in meno (siamo a 533m sul livello del mare). ...
Nikko (the town, not my roommate)
... the town of Nikko which is known as a major site for the Shinto and Buddhist religion. The ancient shrines allowed Nikko to be considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Coincidentally my roommate's name is Nikko. He'd probably do all the ...
Trip nach Nikkō
... Haushaltsprodukte wie Waschmittel, Kosmetika und u.a. auch Windeln herstellt. Bei uns bekannte Produkte sind Nivea, das sie in Japan vertreiben, und vielleicht Kanebo, eine Luxus-Kosmetikmarke. Wir waren in der Windelfabrik. Zuerst haben wir eine kurze ...
Rain ruins day
... 5 minutes, got back on the bus and headed back to the train station. I arrived back in Tokyo feeling cold, wet and miserable. The journey there and back had taken me 8 hours and I hadn't even seen anything. Nikko is a place to visit on a sunny ...
Off to Nikko - home of the 3 famous monkeys
Nick had told me prior to my leaving Brazil that we would be spending a weekend in Nikko. Nikko is one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations because of the history and beautiful shrines/temples there. There are two mausoleums there. They house the ...


