Activity 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..
10 Outdoors Nikko’s Ryuzu-no-taki Falls Tomoko Kamishima “Ryuzu-no-taki Falls” gets its name from the fact that the falls look like a dragon’s head when you see it looking up from nea..
24 Aquarium & Zoo Nakagawa Aquatic Park Stacy Kurokawa Nakagawa Aqua ParkHighlight and its hands-on observation pool.
Activity Tochigi Prefectural Bldg Utsunomiya Stacy Kurokawa At the top of Kencho, 15F, you can dine at Jyugoya, the Japanese restaurant, for Y1,000. Lunch is 11 to 4, coffee time 2:30 to..
Activity Tochigi Iwafune-san Kosho-ji Temple Tomoko Kamishima Iwafune-san Rock looks like a boat left on the broad Kanto Plain. The rock itself has been deified and is worshiped as a god. It..
9 Outdoors Sightseeing in Ohya Village Stacy Kurokawa Ohya is one of the most scenic villages I have visited during almost a decade of living in Japan. Ohya and limestone are synonymous...
Activity Kisuge-daira: Day Lilies in Nikko Tomoko Kamishima Beautiful yellow day lilies cover the grass halfway up the mountain of Nikko's Ko-maruyama in early summer. They bloom from..
