Nikko Konishiya Hotel
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Day 5: Lake Chuzen and Kegon Falls
... and none of the restaurants looked appealing to us. So we decided to accelerate our plans and just take the early bus back to the station, have a quick lunch and then head back to Tokyo to make another attempt at that French Japanese Steakhouse that we've missed out on twice already. You know what they say third times the charm. Damn it third times the charm my ass. When we got to the restaurant we were turned away by the hostess. The restaurant was fully booked for ...
Day 4: Nikko - Temples and Shrines
... walls. The restaurant must have been around for a very long time cause it was difficult to find a speck of bare wall. Messages were even starting to layer on top of one another. Did i mention even the ceilings were covered. So awesome. We spent hours just scouring the walls and reading all the messages and doodles that everyone have left behind. When it came time to leave our mark we rejected the scrap piece of paper the waitress offered us and reached into my wallet to ...
The real Shogun
... Leyasu . The rein lasted 250 years from the early 1600s to 1868. The shrine was constructed under the direction of his grandson after Grandpa's death. It's the most opulent shrine in Japan, taking 15,000 folks 2 years to construct. 13,000 Japanese cedar still remain of the original planting in the 1600s surrounding the shrine. What magnificent old growth trees!
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Japan On Ice
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The temples and pagodas in Nikko were indeed more elaborate than most of those we had seen in Kyoto and area and were allowing me to fill in some blanks on at least a small piece of Japanese history- the first dude to unite most of Japan's feudal kingdoms was the patriarch of the Toyotomi clan, and was based in Osaka (in the oft destroyed 'indestructible' castle) with temples in the Kyoto area. His son and heir was only five years ...
Day trip to Nikko
... popular destination). I spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the many spectacular shrines and temples in the area.
After returning to Tokyo in the late afternoon I spent the evening exploring Akihabara, Tokyo's "electric town". It's an area of Tokyo that is popular for buying anime, computer games, digital cameras and all manner of inexpensive computer and electrical equipment. The whole area is full of bright lights and noise. I can only describe it ...
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