World Heritage at Nikko
My moms cousin suggested that I should visit Nikko while I was in Tokyo. I asked Chika and Dave to join me on the two hour train ride north east. We had a great time, mostly laughing, eating and enjoying the amazing surroundings of Nikko. The camera seemed to love these adorable two and I ended up with 200 pictures. Mainly of them!
Tomorrow I’ll be leaving for Narita and spend the last night there. I’ll be heading home on Thursday morning. My time in Tokyo and Okinawa has been memorable and filled with fun and joy. Thanks to all of you who contributed to that.
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- Colourful temple decorations
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- On our way to Nikko
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- Entering the temple area - Toshugu
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- One needs to re-fuel after all that mountain climbing!
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- Three wise monkeys at Toshugu, Nikko
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- View of the mountains surrounding the shrines
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- Someone made a turtle of rocks - Dave liked it!
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- Piggy back ride at the World Heritage rock
April 30th, 2008 at 2:07 am
wow, Nikko is beautiful! and C-chan has become a beautiful young lady.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
It appears Line will fail to catch up with the sakura in Sweden as well as in Japan. (Not that it’s that much to see here.)
April 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Chika and Nikko are competetive beauties, indeed. But Chika’s way more cute!
Hex: Come on, what are the odds? You’d actually have to work hard to time that. It’s not my sakura year I guess.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Those aren’t just any three monkeys, but THE three monkeys: “The source that popularized this pictorial maxim is a 17th century carving over a door of the famous Tōshō-gū shrine in Nikkō, Japan.”
— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys