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Summer Holiday in Japan 2009 – Day 11: Fourth day in Tokyo
October 21st, 2009
The today’s trip, for the fourth day in Tokyo was Nikko, a town at the entrance to Nikko National Park, which contains a cluster of mausoleums, Shintoist shrines and Buddhist temples.
We departed at the morning from Ueno, not too soon, after our usual breakfast of bread, jam and fruit juice.
Using first Shinkansen train to Utsunomiya and a then a very old but, as usual, very clean (the JR Nikko Line) train, we reached the station in Nikko after about 2 hours of travel.
The area of the Temples, immersed in the woods, is a few Kilometers from the JR station and, although I personally would have preferred to follow it on foot passing on the Shinkyo Bridge, we took a bus to the destination zone.
Unlike the temples of other places we visited, the appearance of the buildings (103) here is special, as you can see from the photos. The ambient was very rich of tourists but being very large we can still appreciate the solemnity of the place and the tranquility of the surrounding woods.
Nikko is worth a visit and you can not think to make an holiday in Japan without having seen it. It is no a coincidence that has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites (as was the Himeji Castle).
In the evening, after dinner at a restaurant near our hotel, we made a little trip in Roppongi (the neighborhood of foreigners in Tokyo)
