Japan Trip: Day 3 - Day Trip to Nikko
May 15th 2007 We took a day trip to Nikko National Park, north of Tokyo. It was about a 2 hour bus ride up there. It was raining with thunder when we got there. We went through the Rinnoji Temple and Toshogu Shrine complex, a collection of beautiful historic buildings on hilly terrain surrounded by huge cedar trees.
We had a Japanese-style lunch in a local restaurant in Nikko, which I thought was really goo
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