The group visited Nikko National Park, home to Toshogo, Japan’s most lavish Shinto/Buddhist shrine. Some of the Horseheads girls dressed in kimonos and used ropes to help pull a religious shrine ...

From the Toshogo shrine, we took a larruping uphill ride to Lake Chuzengi, isolated by a precipitous road full of hairpin turns. When we finally got there, the lake was a stunning visual surprise ...