Having a Nice Tour to Nikko, Japan

Japan Tour and Travel 2010

Nikko Tour Overview

Having a Nice Tour to Nikko, Japan

One instance long ago in New winter, we visited a city titled Nikko in Japan. It was cold and the city was awninged with thick white snow...magically beautiful!..The city is located in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, and approximately 140 km northerly of Tokyo. It is the third-largest city (by area) in Japan, and a favourite instruction for Asian and international tourists. There are also some famous hot springs in the area. Elevations range from 200 to 2,000m. The mountains west of the important city are part of Nikko National Park where you crapper see some of the country's most impressive waterfalls, such as Kegon Falls, Lake Chuzenji, which also has scenic trails. The fastest and most favourable artefact to access Nikko is on the private Tobu Nikko Line from Tokyo's Tobu-Asakusa station. Lake Chuzenji is a marvelously scenic lake in Nikko National Park, its elevation at the surface is (4,124 ft) 1,269 m.

There are most 48 waterfalls around the Nikko area, and Kegon Falls is one of the three famous high waterfalls in Nihon (97 meters high). It's located nearby lake Chuzenji and has long been a favorite locate for young Asian lovers-as substantially as for people committing suicide. But apart from that, the falls are frequented by tourist buses and has lots of relic shops outside. Because we visited Nikko in New winter, Kegon falls was part frozen and awninged with snow..It's truly beautiful. The picture doesn't do it justice.


Misao Fujimura (1886-1903) wrote a suicide poem (click here for his poem) on a trunk of a tree in Kegon Falls. After finishing his death poem, he jumped. This locate becomes an ill-famed spot for sorrowed and desperate young people, mostly to those who are brokenhearted.
The picture below is of a female God that was created after some deaths to protect people from committing suicide.

There are some historical sites in Nikko that attracts tourists, including Futarasan-jinji Shrine, Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Taiyu-in Shrine which dates to the assemblage 767, and these are UNESCO World Heritage sites. Unlike most Asian shrines, the buildings here are extremely ornate, with multicolored carvings and plenty of gold leaf that exhibit onerous Chinese influence. The Five-story Pagoda, Nikko Toshogu Shrine. It's the concealing locate of the royalty originator Tokugawa Leyasu, and the most extravagant of them all.