With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

A couple of hours north by train from Tokyo, nestled in a national park, stands Nikko Toshogu shrine, a grand tribute to Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the founding figure behind the Tokugawa ...

A bronze pagoda at the Toshogu Shrine, traditionally held to be the ... with a new name he had recently chosen, Tokyo, and threw the country into the industrialization program that sealed the ...

I’m just over two hours from downtown Tokyo, yet remarkably ... expert craftsmen worked on the construction of the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, built during the Edo period to honour the famous shōgun ...

Two hours north of Tokyo by train, another popular side trip is Nikko. Plan a day trip to visit the World Heritage Toshogu Shrine complex, Lake Chuzenji, and ryokan inns, if you want to try a ...

Tokyo is a city of contrasts ... Nearby in Ueno Park, is Toshogu Shrine, another must-see religious monument in the city. Toshogu Shrine is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogunate who ...

Located less than two hours from Asakusa on the Spacia X, many people opt for a day trip to Nikko to visit main attractions like the Shinkyo Bridge and Toshogu Shrine. However, the prefecture offers ...

Tobu Railway operates 12 routes in the greater Tokyo area and runs a tourist train ... the 17th-century shogun enshrined at Nikko Toshogu Shrine. 01:12 The "SL Taiju" is so popular that it runs ...