Nikko, Japan Travel Blogs

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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. ...

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 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  ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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). ...

Edo Wonderland
Jun 7, 2008 (44 photos)

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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 ...

Nikko and the Rinnoji Temple
Oct 8, 2006 (7 photos)

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 ...

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.     & ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nikko Park Lodge
Nov 16, 2006 (6 photos)

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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 ...