Today, we signed up for a full day tour of Nikko, Lake Chuzenji and Kegon Falls.  Our first time in Japan we intended to go on this tour but decided not to and to save it for our return trip.  We loved it and it turned out to be really awesome. Nikko: Today we got up early to head over to Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku to get on our tour bus.  We left with spare time, since Shinjuku, or Tokyo in general, can be tricky to navigate from time-to-time.  On our way to the hotel our GPS switched the final destination on us from the previous night when we looked it up so we actually had to walk a bit further than intended.  Due to this we were running late, but we made it to the hotel in time to get signed in.  We boarded our tour bus with about 16 other people and headed out to Nikko.  Nikko is a small city situated in the mountains north of Tokyo and is famously known for Toshogu, which is the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa Shogunate.  Toshogu was built in the 1600s and is a very famous […]
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