Nikko

This last weekend I headed down to Nikko with the Girls - 6 of us to be exact (Simone, Ros, Kristi, Step, Grace, and I). We drove for a little over 3 hours there on Saturday morning in the rain and over the curvy mountains, but we found a nice Hostel to crash, relaxed at an onsen and then checked out the wonderful shrines and waterfalls on Sunday before driving back. Fun times!

Nikko is a small city at the entrance to Nikko National Park. It is most famous for the Toshogu, Japan's most lavishly decorated shrine complex and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Nikko has been a center of Shinto and Buddhist mountain worship for many centuries, and Nikko National Park continues to offer scenic, mountainous landscapes, lakes, waterfalls, hot springs, wild monkeys and hiking trails.