Instead, he planted 40,000 cedar trees along the roads from the sacred bridge at the mountain village of Nikko to several nearby settlements. About 16,000 trees remain 600 years later, and the ...

Visitors climb stone steps that lead up toward the Yomeimon gate at Nikko Toshogu Shrine. The national treasure is covered with about 240,000 sheets of gold leaf and is decorated with 508 ...

Nikko is home to the must-see Toshogu Shrine, part of a Unesco World Heritage Site. It's a gold-encrusted, lacquered wonderland that enshrines the first shogun of the Edo period. Foliage-lined ...

Many visitors come to see the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, which includes an impressive five-story pagoda originally built in 1650 and the famous carving of the three wise monkeys on the stable for the ...

Founded in 1934, Nikko National Park is one of the most beautiful national parks in Japan. ... the park is home to several UNESCO World Heritage Sites collectively known as the Shrines and Temples of ...

The Nikko Tosho-Gu Shrine, was built to honor Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first Tokugawa shogun and the founder of the Edo Bakufu, the last feudal Japanese government which existed from 1600 to 1868.

Video. Ten archers dazzled spectators at the Nikko Toshogu shrine during the autumn festival by performing "yabusame," the traditional Japanese horseback archery.