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Yumoto Hill Side Inn Nikko

2536 Yumoto Nikko, Tochigi, Kanto, 321-1662, Japan

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Temples, a waterfall and an earthquake in Nikko

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... two weeks or so.

And as promised a small bit about japanese vending machines. Those things sell everything. From newspapers, to coffee, to haagen dazs ice cream, to beer, cigarettes and also the normal sodas and water. I'm told some even sell hot meals. For the cigarette vending machine, you need some kind of coin proving you are 20+, but you can just buy beer from a machines without a problem. A bit weird to be honest. Most vending machines ...

Nikko: Buddhism & Bangs!

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... tips from the lodge we headed out. First tip: try the 100m slide around the corner. We can both recommend this as an excellent way to start the day! From here we walked to Nikko's picturesque antique red bridge. Like most people, we dodged the 300Yen fee and took pictures from close by.

Next was the main attraction of the day which seemed to draw tour-buses in by the, er, busload: the Rinno-Ji temple and surrounding shrines. Founded by ...

Mountains and Shrines

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... producing an amazing A4 sized work in about 10 minutes. I ended up buying one for myself. Apparently the Japanese are only just starting to return to Nikko in numbers, but foreign visitors are still well down. The town is about 100km from the nuclear plant, but radiation levels here are normal and minimal - I would have had a very much higher dose flying to Japan than the days I spent here. In the afternoon I had a pleasant ...

Nikko Park Lodge, Nikko

A travel blog entry by markandnanna

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... still liked us as they wanted to stay in the same room with us (4 bedroom dorm) and this was nice as it would make it nicer and a bit safer for our belongins.

The Canadians soon headed off to a nearby onsen whereas we went to stroll around the World Heritage temples which were located in the Nikko National Park. The area was amazing and we paid to get in one of the temples for ...

Theme Park Edo

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... of men nominally in charge of policing a section of Kyoto at the end of the Edo period. However, they spent much of their time rooting out enemies of the shogun. I read a pretty convincing book arguing the Shinsengumi were really just a bunch of murdering thugs. Maybe they have been a bit white-washed in modern Japanese culture. I'm not sure of a good analogy in American culture. Perhaps it is like how at some point we started glorifying the image of the ...

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