Friday 27 March 2015

A trip to Nikko and a curry with Alex

Today is our last day before moving on to Kyoto.

We activated our Japan Rail passes today so we could get the train to Nikko, a historic City. We had to change at Utsonomiya and had a 75 minute wait so hard a quick explore and saw a bonus shrine!

In Nikko we had a good walk through the City and saw the Shinkyo Bridge - said in a myth to have been made from snakes. Tosho Gu Shrine - definitely the most impressive we've seen yet and indeed a UNESCO world heritage site.  We were much higher up than in Tokyo and could see mountains around us with the remains of the winter snow.








We got back to Tokyo around 7pm and met Alex again - taking him to a place that did both curry and cider!  We rounded off the evening in a fun bar with some good piano playing.

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