Nikko is a small city at the entrance to Nikko National Park. It is most famous for the Toshogu, Japan's most lavishly decorated shrine complex and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Nikko has been a center of Shinto and Buddhist mountain worship for many centuries, and Nikko National Park continues to offer scenic, mountainous landscapes, lakes, waterfalls, hot springs, wild monkeys and hiking trails.
Hi all , we have been here for a couple of days now, very different from Tokyo ... Even colder !! only about 5 degree s .. after the months of warm weather we have had it has been a little hard to get used to .. We have been visiting lots of shrines and today we walked up a mountain to see a waterfall.... We are back to Tokyo tomorrow for another 3 days then back to the airport to go to China !!!!!
