The land of mystery

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Up early and we took the shinkansen (again....oh yes, want to get our monies worth!!!) to Nikko, a small town North of Tokyo. We were unsure about trapsing all the way up here as we were starting to feel the strain of rushing around, but made the effort and we're very glad we did. Nikko was deffinately the best place we visited in Japan, the temples and shrines were out of this world....all set in beautiful forests with the most ginormous trees..........and to make it all more atmospheric a heavy fog had set in - just as in the old japanese martial arts films....we half expected a samurai or two to jump out from nowhere!

We'll have to let the pictures do the talking as words cant really explain how amazing this place was.

We were intending to spend the hight here in a youth hostel but covered more ground than expected in the afternoon and got the main sights done. This was really fortunate as we'd been wanting to stay in a capsule hotel while in Tokyo, but thought we'd missed the opportunity.........See next blog!

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Comments

[Julie]

Japan!
Woweeeeee!!!! Blogtastic!!! Here i am thinking how much i'm missing you Nic, so coooooool to get a mega hit of your blogs!! I know you guys were really sad to say goodbye to India as you'd spent so much time there but "Wow!" what an amazing cultural change and soooooo beautiful!!!! Bet you're loving it!!! Big love hun xxxx

[Mum Walton]

Wonderful Japan
Oh my God Dan, when I said you looked more like dad every day I meant the checked shirt, but now the hair!! Japan looks wonderful, and I am really jealous that you have such lovely sushi. I guess I will just have to put up with Waitrose for now, but heh Nic, I am sure you can learn how to make it!!

[scotty]

nikko
yeah this is where i gotta go! love it looks great! love them films wu tang! gwan dan n nic