Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Nikko
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Woke up, washed up and was out to the metro station by about 0715. Today's destination is Nikko and we wanted to pick up the World Heritage pass for Nikko. This pass will include a round trip to Nikko from Asakusa station on the Tobu-Nikko line. The pass costs us 3600 JPY and includes rides on the bus for the World Heritage route. The pass also grants us admission to the 2 shrines and 1 temple of Nikko. The lady that sold us the pass was very friendly and helpful. She gave us instructions on where to go and where to visit. She also asked us where we were from and how we found out about the pass. I told her that I read about the pass on the internet, wikitravel.
The train leaves every hour to Nikko and takes about 2 hours to get to Nikko. Long ride. We had to make sure that we were on the first 2 cars, because the others would stop at Shimoimachi and go off to another location.
Arriving in Nikko, it was rather frigid. Once we got to the temple/shrine area though, it was quite ok. Nikko is really pretty in Autumn and there were lots of people in Nikko. It was kinda scary actually. We thought it'd be a good day to visit Nikko, seeing that it was a weekday, but I guess perhaps weekends are crazier.
We had lunch in a nice little place which had a tatami area and a french deco area. I had actually prepared bread but my friend was hungry and without lunch so we ate at the little cafe. I had ramen with a slice of pork in soy sauce soup base, while my friend had rice with pork cutlet and miso soup.
After the shrines and temple, we walked down to Shinkyo, which is a pretty little wooden bridge over a stream. From there we walked back to Tobu Nikko station and took the train back to Asakusa, this time, it was a 2 and a half hour ride.
Today was rather frigid. Tomorrow might be worse but I picked up some heat packs from a 100 yen shop!!
Dinner was bento that cost only 262 JPY! Had bento from this stall before and it was rather good for the price so we went back today for more.
Tomorrow, we will be visiting Meiji-Jinggu shrine, Shibuya and probably Tokyo Tower.
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