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In the 8th century, the Buddhist priest Shōdō Shōnin founded the first temple at Nikko, the temple of Rinnō-ji, on his way to Mount Nantai. The village became a renowned Buddhist-Shinto religious centre, leading the renowned warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu to choose it as the site for his mausoleum.
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Location is excellent as very near to JR & easy to find. Breakfast was simple and nice. ... more
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of the mountain from around there. Or, From Tokyo you can go north to Nikko, it's a mountain area with national park with hot spring, lake, waterfall, and the tomb of Tokugawa the Shogun. There's also Nikko Edomura ...
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the small street/lane with nice shops along the way. See Kinkaku temple, Kiyomizu temple. Nikko - There is Nikko National Park, and there is Edo-mura, a theme park which resembles Japanese Edo era - it ...
Another place of Temples and ramen with the Yakuza
starting. I headed North, through the Tokyo mass, to Nikko, generally regarded as one of the three ...
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Nikko and Departure
This, finally, is my last post about my trip to Japan. There are several day trips to be taken out of Tokyo, but the one that appealed the most to me was to go up to Nikko, a place which Tokyoites go ...
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Nikko and more Tokyo
Yesterday i headed out of Tokyo, about an hour and a half north to Nikko. There are a lot of shrines and temples there but after Kyoto i was feeling a bit shrined out so got the bus up ...
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