9 Activities Trekking Up Mount Oku-Shirane, Nikko Nicole Bauer My husband and I climbed Mount Oku-Shirane, also known as Nikko-Shirane (日光白根山), this summer. Starting from Yumoto Onsen ..
Activities Sasara, a Sake Bar in Utsunomiya Stacy Kurokawa Where else can you sample so many different kinds of local sake? Sasara offers a selection of about 120 different kinds of sak..
23 Aquarium & Zoo Nakagawa Aquatic Park Stacy Kurokawa Nakagawa Aqua ParkHighlight and its hands-on observation pool.
12 Camping & Trekking Mt. Maruyama Hiking Course in Nikko Tomoko Kamishima Mt. Maruyama (1689m) is located in the northeastern part of the Nikko mountain range. The course is a pleasant 2.5-hour roundtrip..
11 Outdoors Nikko Kirifuri-no-taki Falls Tomoko Kamishima The mountain surrounding Kirifuri-no-taki Falls is ablaze with autumn colors in late October.
Camping & Trekking Nikko's Senjo-ga-hara Marshlands Tomoko Kamishima There are a few walking trails through the marshland that connect the Akanuma bus stop and the Yudaki Iriguchi bus stop.
10 Camping & Trekking Hiking in Nikko in the Rain Larry Knipfing This story focuses on hiking in the rain: Senjogahara, Odajirogahara, Yuno-ko Lake and other places. The people I met along the..
Camping & Trekking Utsuno Cave Tom Roseveare Utsuno Cave is a small, hidden-away location in Sano, Tochigi prefecture, that is completely off the beaten path.