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Day 5: Lake Chuzen and Kegon Falls
... store that we passed in the onsen town hoping to find some "I love Japan" sweaters or anything that could keep us warm. Even if it was a yukata i would not hesitate to put it on and prance around town in it. We were at the point where we would pay anything or do anything for a sweater...I mean anything. But to our frozen despair, none would be had. We had to just suck it up and keep trekking. First stop, Kegon Falls. We wiped of all the snotsicles that started to ...
Day 4: Nikko - Temples and Shrines
... room here at Annex Turtle Inn. The onsen or hot spring hotel (aka ryokan) was slightly hard to find but we enjoyed exploring the area away from the tourist attractions. We passed by a lot of locals, their homes, crossed a couple of bridges and even walked through an erie graveyard. A welcomed change from the concrete jungle of Tokyo. Bon is just chilling on the futon bed and rocking the pink turtle patterned yukata that the hotel provided us. It's basically a one piece ...
The real Shogun
Travel for the day started early--our group meeting in the hotel lobby by 7:40 AM. A couple of train/subway connections and about 3 hours of travel found us at Japan's most famous shrine.
The 1975 James Clavell novel Shogun described Toranaga's rise to Shogunate. The place we visited today called Toshogu Shrine is the shrine dedicated to the real-life ...
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
... 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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