Vi hade jätte tur som fick chansen att se Nikko på vägen från Sendai till Saitama. Tydligen är det rätt svårt att ta sig dit med buss/tåg själv så tur att Rio vår japanska TC (tourcoordinator) ordnade så en av våra 2 bussar gjorde en liten omväg dit för de som ville. Vi såg Kegon Waterfall och Nikko Toshogu Shrine. Här följer bilder och fakta:
Time to se if Nikko Toshogu Shrine is as tall as the Tokyo tower….
Nikko is a town at the entrance to Nikko National Park, most famous for Toshogu, Japan's most lavishly decorated shrine and the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. which ruled Japan for over 250 years until 1868. The shrine is dedicated to the spirits of Ieyasu and two other of Japan's most influential historical personalities, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Minamoto Yoritomo.
Beautiful art!
Countless wood carvings and large amounts of gold leaf were used to decorate the buildings in a way not seen elsewhere in Japan, where simplicity has been traditionally stressed in shrine architecture.
Everyone looking at the monkys, one of Toshogu's three most famous carvings.
Kegon Waterfall is almost 100 meter tall and the most famous of Nikko's many beautiful waterfalls. In fact, it is even ranked as one of Japan's three most beautiful falls, along with Nachi Waterfall in Wakayama Prefecture and Fukuroda Waterfall in Ibaraki Prefecture.
Always a lot of cute houses and shops in Japan when we stop at reststops or here in Nikko.
Cortney trying grilled fish they were selling there.