Nikko Park Lodge

... time. After a good nights sleep at the 'K's House' Hostel (Asakusa, Tokyo) which is excellent, we headed to Nikko and the 'Nikko Park Lodge' which has also been fantastic. We are still here and leave for Kamakura tomorrow. With another two and half ...

Next in turn was World Heritage Site Nikko, which was 2 hours train journey from Tokyo. We chose to stay at Nikko Park Lodge which was recommended (and in our opinion overrated) by Lonely planet. As we arrived at the Nikko station we bumped ...

... in Nikko at around 9:00am and made our way to where we would be staying for the next couple of nights: the Nikko Park Lodge. The lodge, run by a budddhist monk, is about 20 minutes' walk from the station (30 minutes with a bag of ...

... a couple hours later we had no clue how to get to our hostel, so ended up forking out for a cab. We booked into the Nikko Park lodge, a great place up in the forest run by Buddhist monks, and you could even do yoga in the mornings if you wanted. We dumped ...

We are staying in the most amazing hostel. Nikko Park Lodge. This place is just stunning. It's in beautiful surroundings, and the staff are so friendly. I'm going to be sad to leave this place. It doesn't feel like a hostel, it feels like a home with a ...

It took about 90 minutes to arrive to Nikko.  I decided to skip Mt Fuji after the weather being unbearably hot. The hostel (Tobu Nikko Park Lodge) is the best I've seen at 2990 yen per night.  8 beds in a dorm room which opens up to a common ...

... and managed to get a hotel room from there. A nice man from the hotel even came to pick us up there! We stayed at the Park Lodge. The owner's name was Ken and he had lived in California for the past 20 years and spoke great English. That was super ...

Staying in a great hostel. Park Lodge hostel in Nikko. I highly recommend it. Spent today at the Shrines.. walking around and then 2 hours of kareoke.. (I'm so happy Helena seems to be enjoying it as well;)). and tomorrow Edomura.. so that'll be ...

... of about 100 miles or so. Our destination; a quaint lodge in the mountains run by Zen Buddist Monks, called the Nikko Park Lodge. Our first impressions as we stepped off the train was wow. We had no idea that Nikko was tucked away in the ...

... his resort in Hokaido, while I enjoyed hiking and temple viewing at an island village called Matsushima. WWOOFing at Nikko Park Lodge This lodge was in a cute mountainous town called Nikko. The lodge attracts many young travellers and it has a ...

... us a free reign to explore Japan. We promptly jumped on the train and with a couple of changes we arrived in mountainous Nikko, 2.5 hours north of Tokyo. Our accommodation was an easy find, but no sooner had we turned out of the station we were stopped ...

... 's major attractions and has several World Heritage shrines and temples, as well as lots of forest and waterfalls nearby.  We stayed in a lodge up in the hills and this was our only proper time in the countryside of Japan and was a nice change. The ...

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... row of Buddhas, all wearing red hats and bibs. It was quite a sight to behold. A much lesser known, and lesser visited part of Nikko, I was really glad I made the journey. I thought it was a bit of a shame that more people didn't come this way, I was the ...

Time for some sort of budgeting to begin with my first stay at Nikko Lodge, recommended by my great mate Ricky Bobby...beautiful place to chill and check out the surrounds, especially after a hectic few days in 'Tokes' with my new international friends ...

We left Tokyo on a train, headed North 2 hours to Nikko.  We walked the 20 minutes to our hostel, which is in the woods near a river and walking trails.  We were going to stay a 3rd night but the lodge was booked up so we decided to plan out the ...