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Day 5: Lake Chuzen and Kegon Falls
... night. Boooo so disappointing. In the end it wasn't all so bad. We had lots of time of time on our hands before our train so we wandered the posh streets of the Ginza district in Tokyo. Every block was lined with fancy restaurants and cafes. Store after store we peered in the glass windows, looked at menus and display cases of plastic mock dishes and finally settled on a Japanese Italian restaurant. We were intrigued by the Japanese style spaghetti, sauce and ...
Day 4: Nikko - Temples and Shrines
... at maps or wondering what the heck we were suppose to do. Another bonus was she took us to the best and quieter areas that were relieved of the hoards of tourists and school children. Please, if you ever decide to go Nikko make sure you get a hold of one of these guides they are amazing and it doesn't hurt that they are free. The only bummer was some of the temples and shrines were under renovation. So parts of it were covered up in scaffold. In the case of ...
The real Shogun
... was interesting. I've always like to eat on the street, finding the food good as well as inexpensive. There was a small food court with various items for sale. I tried to communicate the term "tube steak" to the guy with hot dogs for sale, but was unable to make the connection. My selected cuisine consisted for a hot baked potato with lots of butter and this nifty ...
Japan On Ice
... be spared from evil, and the theme was chosen here in the ancient belief that the monkeys would protect the horses from disease.
The population of Nikko is only 90,000 so I'm not sure how a professional hockey team ended up here (vs nearby Greater Tokyo Area with 35.7 million+ people) but they were playing out of a reasonably modern facility and seemed to have quite a presence in town. Apparently Westerners don't often make this ...
Day trip to Nikko
... heard one tour guide mention "Takarakuji" which means the lottery"). They were all super expensive so it seemed like a bit of a con to me.
After lunch by the lake, I took the bus down some very twisty mountain roads (think of the final scene from the Italian Job, yikes!) back to central Nikko to visit Nikko's famous shrines and temples (including the tomb of the former Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu). The temple area was huge and packed with tourists (clearly ...
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