{"id":4559,"date":"2010-02-10T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T22:21:54","slug":"nikko-%e6%97%a5%e5%85%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/nikko-%e6%97%a5%e5%85%89\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikko \u65e5\u5149"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02114249trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02114249trim.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nikko shinkyo sacred bridge winter snow japan \u795e\u6a4b \u65e5\u5149\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, hoping to see a bit of snowy Japan, we headed north to Nikko for a night. Ironically, the night before we left, Tokyo experienced its first real snow of the winter. The way there was beautiful, with the snow covering <i><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/cherry-blossoms-at-zenshoan-%E5%85%A8%E7%94%9F%E5%BA%B5\/>shitamachi<\/a><\/I> in Asakusa and extending all the way to Nikko.<\/p>\n<p>We purchased a Tobu Nikko World Heritage Pass, which saved us several thousand yen. Some sites on the internet say you need to show your passport with your &#8220;visitor visa&#8221; in order to obtain the pass and prove you are not residing in Japan. However, I could find nothing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobu.co.jp\/foreign\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Tobu&#8217;s site<\/a> stating such. They didn&#8217;t ask for our passports or any proof so I suppose this restriction of &#8220;foreigner&#8217;s only&#8221; is either no longer the case or not enforced. <\/p>\n<p>The top photo is of Shinkyo (\u795e\u6a4b), one of the first things we saw upon arrival in Nikko. I&#8217;m sure it looks great in any season, but I thought it was very nice with fresh snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02122115trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02122115trim-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil toshogu nikko japan shinkyu sansaru\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02122115trim-800x483.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02122115trim-250x151.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02122115trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sacred Stables (\u53a9\u795e or <I>umayagami<\/I>) can be found on the grounds of the Toshogu Shrine (\u6771\u7167\u5bae). I didn&#8217;t realize the place was so famous until doing a little research after our trip as no one was taking pictures of it, even though I thought it was lovely in the snow. Actually, there were few people period, which is probably very unusual for Toshogu. A weekday in the dead of winter is a good time to avoid the crowds (and be very cold in the process).<\/p>\n<p>Why is <I>umayagami<\/I> famous? Because of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02121920trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02121920trim-800x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil sansaru nikko japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02121920trim-800x320.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02121920trim-250x100.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02121920trim.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The oldest rendition of the &#8220;see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil&#8221; monkeys (\u4e09\u733f) can be found here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, hoping to see a bit of snowy Japan, we headed north to Nikko for a night. Ironically, the night before we left, Tokyo experienced its first real snow of the winter. The way there was beautiful, with the snow covering shitamachi in Asakusa and extending all the way to Nikko. We purchased a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[418,88,258,267,284,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32255,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/32255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}