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Nikko Slideshow
Nikko
Travel Blogs from Nikko, Japan
Sumo wrestling
... jeg er lige nu, nemlig i Nikko. Jeg bliver lidt nodt til at fortaelle noget mere om det fantastiske togsystem de har her i Japan. Kina er et helvede mht. at kobe togbilletter og finde rundt med togene og dette maa vaere himlen for de togrejsende, det ...
Festival?
... this night worth my buck. The room costs 6,400 JPY. Anyways, after I drop off my stuff at the hotel I head back to Nikko to finish my sightseeing and check out this festival everyone has been talking about. Turns out this "festival" consists of 15 ...
Accommodating experiences
... back from the road, cold and lonely. Choosing the Kinugawa Inn was a mistake. It has a Ryanair approach to service: it calls itself Nikko while actually it is four stations and a line change away from the town. You have to pay extra to use the shower ...
Temples and Shines
... few up here though). In the afternoon, a few of us set off on to see some waterfalls in the area. They are the largest in Japan and were worth the trek there. Although it was starting to rain and was quite cold up in the mountains. I didn't think I would ...
Velmi destivy den
Radeji jsem naridili budika, protoze to mame porad hodne otocene. V 7.15 jsme vyrazili kombinaci nekolika vlaku do 150km vzdaleneho mesta Nikko, ktere je na seznamu UNESCO pro svoje chramy. Rano neprselo, ovsem to se zmenilo cestou. Uz uz to vypadalo ze ...
Nikko and Toshu-go Shrine
... sightseeing. Friday I:m going to Yokohama...its only 1/2 hour away and no expensive to go and there are a lot of English speaking people and it has a large Chinatown. Yes Chinatown in Japan....should be interesting. So for now....Ogenki de (keep ...
Nikko
Die nächste Station war Nikko, Weltkulturerbe mit Tempeln und Schreinen, ca. 2 Stunden nördlich von Tokyo. Dort steht unter anderem das Original der 3 berühmten Affen, die sich Ohren, Mund und Augen zuhalten; es ist überraschenderweise jedoch eine ...
Nikko Temples
... time since the trip started (yes, this includes HK). Decided to get breakfast and let faith decide on the timing for the train to Nikko. Good intention but, I get to the station and I see that I've only 5min for the train... The price is 1360Yen... I've ...
Dag 16 To Nikko
... was de kamer meteen weer een tering zooi >.< hehe ^^; Vervolgens maar een rondje gaan lopen nou we kwamen niet verder dan de Nikko brug want we zijn tempels een beetje zat hehe. :P Ja we zijn slecht daarnet een bak noedels op en daarna in de regen ...
Nikko temples and river
... ! She suggested we take this little walk along the river just down from the temple complex. We wandered through the outskirts of Nikko, always angling down towards the river we could hear louder and louder. There is water everywhere in Nikko, it's always ...
Tokyo to Nikko - The Sleep Train
Trains often lull people to sleep with their slow, rhythmic, rocking motion, so it is common to see commuters falling asleep on their way home from work. Many just bow their head and quietly close their eyes, but this one woman started to do head-jerks. ...
Nikko!
... end of a winding driveway off of the main road in Nikko. It is right above the famous Sacred Bridge of Nikko, which is an important cultural area of Japan. We asked for the least expensive room which was a twin with a shower but no bath. The place ...
Nikko is Nippon
... the country. Nihon is also the nation's name. I like that. A casual way to call one's homeland. *** In Nikko, as in my travels throughout Japan in the past 11-plus months -- Chiba and Tokyo, Yokohama and Saitama, Kasukabe and Kamakura, Okinawa and ...
Natural Nikko
... helping us make plans. He even took Jono to the coin laundry to dry his clothes. Since we were only spending two nights in Nikko we had one full day of sightseeing. Despite Emily's attempts to sleep in, we managed to see 13 sights in the world heritage ...
Our First Anniversary (you may all now gag)
... for Saturday and Sunday night. So, we booked a room, and planned the rest of our trip. We arrived in Nikko on Saturday morning, after a pleasant two-hour train ride (I7m learning to love napping on trains), and strolled around ...
No.14. Find the owl at Ikebukuro Station
... infamous for the crazy dressers)... and so on. We basically walked ALL around tokyo for SIX HOURS. dammmmn I was so sweaty. Japan has actually been pretty hot, humid up until 2 days ago. It is finally turning into Autumn. buuuuut now ...
"If you have not seen Nikko... "
... but i dont quite think I`ve seen Japan yet. Almost all 12 of us went by train to beautiful Nikko, where the big forestcovered mountains of japan where visible everywhere. There we visited the huge area of temples and shrines build as the gravemonument of ...
Nikko
... catch the Tosho-gu Autumn Festival, including horseback archery and a re-enactment of the delivery of Tokugawa Ieyasu's remains to Nikko ... a parade of hundreds of people in period costumes. It was truly an awesome spectacle. Rather than provide ...
A little more and then some
... details that would have passed us by if it hadn't been pointed out for us. A throwback to the style from Kyoto and other places. Nikko had its spring festival during the days we stayed in town and we went out to see the float parade. They had brought out ...
Nikko- shrines, ice hockey and beer
... how to skate (do your worst in the comments box below), I left and walked around a 500m path before stumbling upon Nikko Beer, one of many microbreweries in Japan. Obviously I had to go in and get served by a guy in a suit in the brewery cafe when clearly ...
Nico in Nikko
... interesting to see the little traditional boats around the river just North of the urban area and the kids playing baseball! Nikko is a pleasant little town, very alpine in aspect but more importantly is home to the most lavish shrine in ...
Tokyo Fish Markets and Nikko!
... salarymen on mobile phones. After a couple of hours soaking it all in, we headed for Tokyo station to catch the shinkansen to Nikko. We headed for the Temple complex of Tosho Gu. It was a bit of a walk from the station through the ...
The planet Mars
We arrived in Nikko, Japan early this morning. the night sky was beautiful during the trip across the ocean. We are planning to get some rest, then set up for viewing Mars early this evening. It should appear in the West at about 7:00 p.m. if the ...
Lake Chuzenji & Yumoto Hot Springs
... NW of town, much higher, closer to the mountains on a high plateau. There is a large lake, Chuzenji, the highest natural lake in Japan, at 1269 meters (4,124 ft). Yumoto is a bit higher yet. This may not sound like much, until you remember that Nikko is ...