Nikko, Japan Travel Blogs

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Wax on wax off, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Wax on wax off
Mar 23, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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Typhoon Antics, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Typhoon Antics
Aug 5, 2003 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by itsem
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Nikko Take Two, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko Take Two
Mar 24, 2006 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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Shinkansen to a Ryokan, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Shinkansen to a Ryokan
Jul 16, 2005 (7 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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Temple Overload, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Temple Overload
May 8, 2007 (30 photos)

... 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 of....OZ is ...

A travel blog entry by hodge
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Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko
Sep 20, 2004 (2 photos)

Nikko jest miejscem kultu Shinto. Liczne swiatynie rozrzucone sa na wzgorzach porosnietych wiekowym lasem (wszystko wpisane jest na liste swiatowego dziedzictwa ludzkosci).

A travel blog entry by mm
Temple town, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Temple town
Nov 12, 2007 (5 photos)

... . 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 ...

A travel blog entry by gypsymichelle
chuzenji lake in autumn, Nikko, Japan travel blog
chuzenji lake in autumn
Nov 13, 2008 (35 photos)

... 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 before. ...

A travel blog entry by siripatana
Temples, temples, temples, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Temples, temples, temples
Jul 4, 2009 (37 photos)

We headed for the station in Asakusa and caught the train to Nikko, which took 2 hours. Once we finally left the outskirts of Tokyo, we entered green hills covered in forest. On arrival in Nikko, we walked to the area with all the temples and reached a ...

A travel blog entry by angela_louise
A ryokan beside the lake, Nikko, Japan travel blog
A ryokan beside the lake
Dec 1, 2008 (22 photos)

... 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 teacups  ...

A travel blog entry by siripatana
Chuzenji lake in early morning, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Chuzenji lake in early morning
Nov 17, 2008 (22 photos)

...   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 ...

A travel blog entry by siripatana
3x 2300+ /2, Nikko, Japan travel blog
3x 2300+ /2
Jun 14, 2008 (45 photos)

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 jedla.

A travel blog entry by mimiama
Rain ruins day, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Rain ruins day
May 31, 2008

... 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 day.

A travel blog entry by tayka
Daytripper, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Daytripper
Feb 7, 2003 (7 photos)

... . 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 helped ...

A travel blog entry by jag
Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko
Nov 12, 2008 (6 photos)

... , 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 bullet ...

A travel blog entry by chrisharrison
Our First Glimpse into Ancient Japan, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Our First Glimpse into Ancient Japan
Mar 22, 2009 (31 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by emmaandpaul
Tokyo Continued..., Fish Market, Nikko, ShibuYA!, Japan travel blog
Tokyo Continued...
Jun 11, 2006 (20 photos)

... 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 also ...

A travel blog entry by travellish
Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko
Nov 10, 2008 (31 photos)

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by meaghanmcc
Templos en Nikko y clase de kendo, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Templos en Nikko y clase de kendo
Jul 8, 2009

... con un harsh brown. Todo muy bueno. Me dieron ganas de irme a la cama otra vez a dormir. La madre de Norito nos llevo a Nikko. De camino se paso a recoger a su amiga Yokki. Estuvimos hablando un poco en el coche y cuando llegamos nos hizo un par de fotos ...

A travel blog entry by cagonu
Day trip to Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Day trip to Nikko
Mar 5, 2005 (16 photos)

Day trip to magnificent snow covered temples and shrines. Solo bush trek down through the Valley of Forgotten Souls.

A travel blog entry by richardflux
Nikko is Nippon, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko is Nippon
Jul 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... ) 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). ...

A travel blog entry by cavallette
Edo Wonderland, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Edo Wonderland
Jun 7, 2008 (44 photos)

stare domy

A travel blog entry by mimiama
Off to Nikko - home of the 3 famous monkeys, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Off to Nikko - home of the 3 famous monkeys
Jul 22, 2006

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 ...

A travel blog entry by athena
Nikko and the Rinnoji Temple, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko and the Rinnoji Temple
Oct 8, 2006 (7 photos)

A travel blog entry by lweinreich
NIKKO, NIKKO, Japan travel blog
NIKKO
Jul 9, 2006 (13 photos)

... bad. Only about 2 or 3 hours. We went a little to far though so it took a bit longer. It was a little rainy though at Nikko so the weather could have been nicer, but at lease it was cool. We only stayed a day so we couldn't see everything. We went to ...

A travel blog entry by rachel_gould
Nikko  1, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko 1
Nov 24, 2008 (36 photos)

... and packed the things . We go down to the dining room for breakfast so that we can catch the earliest bus down to Nikko town.       It is a Japanese breakfast: slices of pork ,tofu and seaweed.     & ...

A travel blog entry by siripatana
NICK: Nick-o in Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
NICK: Nick-o in Nikko
Feb 7, 2006 (15 photos)

... forth for a while. Since we were there in the off-season, it was hard ot find a restaurant, but we finally found Japan's answer to Denny's: Skylark. With their low prices and tasty japanese food, it was the best thing we could find. Bottomless drinks, ...

A travel blog entry by niknash
Japan, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Japan
Mar 12, 2006

... but Electric City was pretty impresive with all the lights and massive billboards (just like on telly). We have just spent 2 nights in Nikko, a town in the mountains. It is rather cold up here with some ice and snow around. We went to the temples (a ...

A travel blog entry by ed_and_yvette
Nikko Park Lodge, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko Park Lodge
Nov 16, 2006 (6 photos)

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A travel blog entry by sabinekim
Nikko, Nikko, Japan travel blog
Nikko
Jan 16, 2006 (6 photos)

... edge of the bridge and then turn around and backtrack to exit). On the far side of the bridge is the entrance to Nikko National Park. I wandered up the side of the mountain, ending up at Rinnoji Temple-Sanbutudo. Within the temple were beautiful golden ...

A travel blog entry by virtualshan