Nikko Travel Guide

 Robachu1 Says:  You should try a little mindless fun at Nikko Edo Mura. People might look down on it but the various shows are worth your time. It is also fun walk around and pretend you're taking a stroll in Japan at the time of the Shogun, Ninja, and Samurai. 

 jlanza29 Says:  This is the other major site in Nikko (please read my other tip). Which one is more spectacular it's a toss up. The Tosho-gu shrine is the first shrine you encounter in Nikko. Located up a small hill. It's the most popular and most crowded site in Nikko. The price of... 

 jlanza29 Says:  This shrine was built in 1653. This shrine was built for Tokugawa Iemitsu one of the shogun of Japan. It is one of the 2 breathtaking sites in Nikko. Price for the shrine is included in the World Heritage Pass. But otherwise it is 500 Yens to get in. It takes about 20... 

 AKtravelers Says:  ....The top site to see in all of Nikko is the Toshu-gu, the elaborate shrine complex built around the final resting place of Tokogawa Ieyasu, the unifier of Japan in 1600. Ieyasu loved Nikko's peaceful hills and shrines, visiting them when he could during his reign, and... 

 AKtravelers Says:  Without even saying the words, everyone knows the three monkeys with their hand covering, respectively, their eyes, ears and mouth -- they embody the principle that if we "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil", we will be spared evil. But what I didn't know until I got... 

 AKtravelers Says:  The Jizo statues are a line of buddhas stretching several hundred meters along the Kanman walk in Nikko. These Buddhas have been there for hundreds of years, so some of them are in worse shape than others, subject to the vagueries of weather, moss growth and river floods,... 

 Bunsch Says:  The Shinkyo Bridge, like the Torii at Miyajima, is emblematic of Japan. Curiously, I encountered it first at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which has Kawase Hasui's beautiful woodblock print, "Snow on the Bridge at Nikko Shrine" (1930). Later I discovered the Hasue made... 

 Bunsch Says:  Kegon Falls are quite spectacular, with numerous smaller waterfalls as adjuncts to the principal 300' drop. (If you're old enough to remember "Twin Peaks", think Snoqualmie Falls.) The falls were created by lava flows displacing the Daiya River, at Lake Chûzenji in Nikkô... 

 james_michael Says:  This cosy restaurant, nestled in the main street not far from the station, provides more than just inexpensive and heartening home-made dishes. The great attraction of this restuarant are its walls and ceiling - a mosaic of momentos from all its previous diners. Photos,... 

 shi612 Says:  Tobu Travel Tokusen No Tabi "Kinugawa Yu-yu Plan" is a package of Tobu Railway express train from Tokyo and a hotel accommodation in Kinugawa Onsen, sold by Tobu Travel.This includes: 1) Roundtrip by a limited express train from Asakusa, Tokyo, to Kinugawa Onsen with free... 

 salisbury3933 Says:  For JR pass holders travelling to Nikko from Tokyo, the best way to get to Nikko is to get the Shinkansen as far as Utsunomiya, and then transfer to the Nikko line from there.Utsunomiya is around 50 minutes from Tokyo by Shinkansen, and Nikko is a further 40 minutes from... 

 jlanza29 Says:  The way to get to Nikko is by train from Tokyo. We bought a World Heritage Pass for 3600 YEN that included the return train ride to Nikko on the TOBU line and all the admission prices to all the sites. This pass also included the World Heritage Bus that takes you all the... 

 kevarms Says:  Confusingly not in Nikko, it's located high up in the mountains beside Lake Chuzenji and the Kegon Falls. This modern building covers the natural environment of the Nikko National Park with plenty of interesting displays and dioramas on the flora and fauna. The easiest way...