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We'll be in Tokyo for a few days over Easter - so looking forward to it! We'll spend a few days meeting our friends, enjoying some great food and just generally hanging out at what used to be our "regular" places. Also, the cherry blossom is early this year, and as a matter of fact it is expected to peak exactly while we are there. So very lucky, indeed...




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Autumn Leaves in Nikko

11 November 2008

Autumn Leaves in Nikko

Autumn is a really beautiful season in Japan. Everybody goes out to admire the fire-red leaves, and so did we. As if we hadn’t seen enough temples in China the weekend before, we took a day trip to Nikko, a 2-hour train ride north of Tokyo (on a tiny and really, really slow train - nothing to do with the high tech Shinkansen). The place accommodates an impressive complex of temples and shrines, beautifully bedded in the mountains, in an area that is particularly famous for viewing the autumn leaves.

So no wonder Nikko was pretty crowded, but as we walked away from the most central sites the crowds dispersed and we found some calmer spots, too. Definitely worth the visit at this time of the year – the autumn leaves ARE beautiful (and this from two persons who are neither nature nor temple freaks).

Impressions of Nikko in Autumn

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