Nikko

Straight off the flight from Sydney at Narita airport, on to the Narita Express in to Tokyo to then catch a high speed Shinkansen train to Utsunomiya, from where I got on a regional train to get to Nikko. Nikko is a small city in Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture, in the mountains north of Tokyo. It’s the site of Toshogu, the famed Shinto shrine established in 1617 as a lavish memorial for Tokugawa Ieyasu, founding ruler of the Tokugawa shogunate, or Edo Period. When I was there I could not access some important parts of the shrine as they closed for restoration works. Still very impressive nevertheless.