Ruta cultural por Nikko - Privado

Información

Toshogu Shrine is the dedicated place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate that ruled Japan for over 250 years until 1868. Initially built in 1617, during the Edo period, while Ieyasu's son Hidetada was shogun, it was enlarged during the time of the third shogun, Iemitsu. Ieyasu is enshrined there, where his remains are also entombed. This shrine is built by Tokugawa retainer Todo Takatora.

During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate carried out stately processions from Edo to the Nikko Tosho-gu along the Nikko Kaido. The shrine's annual spring and autumn festivals reenact these occasions, and are known as "processions of a thousand warriors." The most famous 100 meter beautiful waterfalls. Located at Lake Chuzenji in Nikko National Park. The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava flows.

At 100 meter high, it is one of Japan's three highest waterfalls. In the autumn, the traffic on the road from Nikko to Chuzenji can sometimes slow to a crawl as visitors come to see the fall colors. Lake Chuzenji is a scenic lake in the mountains above Nikko town. It was created 20,000 years ago when Mount Nantai erupted and blocked the river.

The lake was a favourite summer haunt of Sir Ernest Satow when he was Britain's envoy in Japan, 1895-1900 as his diaries of that time attest. He constructed a house by the lake which is still owned and used to this day by the British Embassy. Shinkyo God Bridge used to be known as story of Bridge of Snakes with Wild Sedges.

Meeting/pick-up point: Pick-up at the Hotel in Tokyo area.
Duration: Nine hours.
Start/opening time: At 9am.
Languages: English.