Nikko 2019: Morning in the Mountains
One of the nice things about the hostel I was staying in during my visit to Nikko was that it was right by the river,…
One of the nice things about the hostel I was staying in during my visit to Nikko was that it was right by the river,…
As you might expect, there’s not much to do in Nikko at night other than get a meal at one of the restaurants in town.…
It takes a few minutes to walk down the road from Ryuzu Falls to the north shore of Lake Chuzenji and thankfully the rain was…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: Walking the North Shore
The rain steadily intensified as the bus moved west along Lake Chuzenji’s north shore and at the Ryuzu Waterfall stop I got off and walked…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: Ryuzu Waterfall (竜頭ノ滝)
Continuing on from the British and Italian Embassy Villas, I walked further south along Lake Chuzenji’s eastern shore. I had grand aspirations that day to…
A little further south from Chuzenji Temple are the former villas of the British and Italian ambassadors to Japan. During the Meiji Restoration era several…
Continue reading → Lake Chuzenji 2019: British and Italian Embassy Villas
With thick fog obscuring Kegon Waterfall, I returned to Chuzenjiko Onsen and then started going south along the east side of the lake. Though the…
The next morning it was a wet, foggy day in Nikko. A storm was passing through the mountains and although it wasn’t going to be…
I arrived in the mountain town of Nikko late in the day after first taking a shinkansen (bullet train) from Tokyo Station to the city…
After spending four days in and around Tokyo, I began the next leg of my journey across Japan and Korea. This part of the trip…
Continue reading → Japan Korea 2019: The Journey North Begins!