Nikko
Jason and I knew that we wanted to do a day trip to Nikko from Tokyo. Unfortunately, Nikko had rain in the forecast for every day we were in Tokyo. To get there, it required that we took a shinkasen from the main train station and then get on a local train. It turned out that the shinkasen we needed to take home was a major commuter option, so the original option we wanted was booked. This is the only time we had any issues with booking the tickets we needed to. I have bundled three temples that we visited into one larger post for simplicity. We visited: Toshogu Taiyuinbyo Rinnoji We also visited the Kanmangafuchi Abyss. I will start with Toshogu as this was the largest draw to Nikko and also one of the most impressive things we saw while we were in Japan (and it had pretty serious competition). Toshogu is the shrine and mausoleum dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, ...