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The most beautiful mountains of Nikko

Nikko is one of the cities that best sums up Japan.

Mount Nantai on the heights of Nikko.

Mount Nantai

Mount Nantai is located in the middle of the Nikko Mountains, in Tochigi Prefecture.

Discover Shirakawa

One hundred kilometers northeast of Nikko, the town of Shirakawa has some great surprises stored for visitors.

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Utsunomiya Castle Ruins

Utsunomiya Castle Ruins: Utsunomiya Castle was the main castle of the Utsunomiya clan which ruled the area for many centuries from the Heian Period on.

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Matsugamine Catholic Church Utsunomiya

Matsugamine Catholic Church in Utsunomiya, Tochihi was designed by the Swiss architect Max Hinder and completed using Oya stone in 1932.

Sommet Mont Shibutsu

Mount Shibutsu

Mount Shibutsu has a strategic position, between the marsh of Oze and the prefecture of Gunma: it is an opportunity to go from the first to the second during a stimulating ascent but far from being

Oze Park Trails

Oze Park

A few hours by bus from Tokyo, this park is a favorite destination for hikers, who come to admire the largest alpine swamp in Japan, Ozegahara swamp, and Ozenuma pond.

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Oya Valley Guide

Oya Valley outside Utsunomiya offers an impressive landscape of bizarrely shaped rocks and an assortment of historical sites well worth a day trip all the way from Tokyo.

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Utsunomiya Guide

Utsunomiya: read a guide to Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture famous as the capital of gyoza dumplings in Japan.

Tobu World Square

If you were told you could admire the most beautiful sites around the planet all in one afternoon without breaking the bank, you will surely answer that it is impossible! Well ...

Chuzenji Lake and Mount Nantai

Lake Chuzenji

Just half an hour from Tosho-gu Shrine, Lake Chuzenji is a good opportunity for a nice walk in Nikko Park.

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Kirifuri Highland & Kawaji Onsen

Kirifuri Highland and Kawaji Onsen: read a guide to the remote Kirifuri Highland area of Tochigi Prefecture and Kawaji and Kinugawa Onsens.