This tour is one night, two days tour in Nikko that include various tour spots such as Toshogu shrine, Rinnoji temple of 1st land layer, Akechi
daira, lake Chuzenji, Kegon water-fall, Chuzenji temple of 2nd land layer, Senjogahara, Ryuzu-waterfall of 3rd land layer and
Yunoko-lale, Yunoko-waterfall of 4th land layer. You can enjoy enormous theme park of Nikko for both nature and culture.
At your staying hotel in Tokyo
To move from Tokyo to Nikko by Shinkansen & local train
Van taxi pick up us at JR Nikko station
From Akechidaira view point, you can fee overwhelmed landscape of Kegon-fall, Chuzenji lake and surrounding mountains & forest as if it is a picture postcard.
Thanks to the multiple layers of enormous ground in Nikko area, Kegon -fall was created from which water flow from Chuzenji lake to a lower stage land.
Luch near Lake-Chuzenji,
Chuzennji lake is located near Nantai mountain on the altitude of 1269meter. This lake is on the highest place (1269meter) in Japan.
Between around 25k ~ 15k years ago, the large eruption continuously occurred on one of Nikko mountain area and Nantai mountain was created. This collapse of volcanic edifice created current beautiful Chuzenji-lake by damming up two rivers which used to be near Nantai mountain. As the result, two rivers existed in previous stage has become a large lake by a large amount of water accumulated.
This temple was founded in 784 by the Shoudo-Shonin who was the founder of Nikko mountain. This temple is a branch temple of Rinnoji temple.
To move to a hotel near Chuzenji lake
Van service pick up us at your staying hotel
Hiking of Senjogahara walk in the marshland and return to Akanuma: The course of Senjyogahara walk in marshland is as follows.
- We arrive at Akanuma information center with Van parked on the parking place there.
- We enter the hiking course from the entrance near the center.
- After we walk around 200 meters on earth road, we reach a wooden road and walk toward Yunoko-lake.
- This hiking plan is around one hour walking both way between entrance of Akanuma and an area of a view point of Senjyogahara
where you can see it clearly without no obstruction. We return back to Akanuma entrance.
Nikko area consists of four layers plateau. This waterfall exists thanks to the water coming down from Yunoko-lake on the fourth layer. This waterfall flow down on the lava over 210 meters created by an eruption of Nantai mountain. We walk down from the upper side spot of the waterfall to the final spots of Ryuzu waterfall which flow into the waterfall basin by walking down the road with seeing various types of water flow view and surrounding landscape. The width of the lava is around 10 meters.
This lake is located on the 4th layer Nikko land and you will feel mysterious and profound atmosphere.
Toshogu shrine is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu who was the top greatest worriers who succeeded in unifying Japan and made a great contributions to establishing peace in Japan for 270 years from 1603 to 1867 by his same family government until Meiji restoration had started in 1867. This shrine was founded in 1617 after Ieyasu died based on his will that he wanted to protect Japan by placing himself deified in taboo direction of this shrine from Edo castle even after his death.
This temple includes all buildings of Buddhism temples in Nikko mountains.
Futarasan shrine has deified the divine spirits of various mountains in Nikko including Futarasan (Nantaisan).
This shrine used to be the sacred place of Asceticism and after Edo-era (1603 started), this had considered to be important effected by Toshogu shrine.
Van Taxi escort you and a guide at JR Nikko station
Shinkansen from Nikko to Tokyo by Shinkansen and a local train arriving at Hotel in Tokyo.
At your staying hotel in Tokyo
Guide fee (19.5 hours)
Pick-up-fee at your staying hotel in Tokyo,
Transportation fee during this tour for you and a guide in case you move from hotel in Tokyo: JPY11160/ adult with both way,
Lunch fee,
Entrance fee for you: Toshogu shrine: JPY1300/ adult, Rinnoji temple: JPY1000/ adult,
Chuzenji temple: JPY500/ adult, Laku Chuzenji cruising fee: JPY1680/ adult,
Akechidaira Ropeway: JPY740/ adult,
Accomodation fee (one night) for a guide: JPY8000,
Lunch fee,
Taxi fee: (note) This tour use Transfer company who are registered in Gowithguide.
I will support for you to reserve this service.
Please directly pay the Transfer fee estimated from the Transfer company (registered in Gowithguide) to them through Gowithguide.
I am now focusing tour guide area for East Japan area such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Hakone, Kamakura, Mt.Fuji, Nikko, Gunma, Saitama and Kanazawa.
However, I can support you for one day trip of Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nara and Himeji from Tokyo.
1) This tour use Transfer company who are registered in Gowithguide.
I will support for you to reserve this service.
Please directly pay the Transfer fee estimated from the Transfer company (registered in Gowithguide) to them through Gowithguide.
2) For fairly long walking of sight-seeing, please put on the shoes to walk with ease.
3) Please prepare the cash to spend any train riding, lunch and souvenir.
4) I prepared the blog of Nikko which shows various tour spots with detail photos and detail explanation each shown as below.
Blog title of Nikko: Nikko as the enormous theme park of both nature and Edo era culture
Kashima expertly guided my son and I with a day tour of Hakone. All the logistics for the day were smooth and exactly as promised, and Kashima matched his pace to ours. He was very attentive to detail, and spent a lot of effort to explain the history and geology of Hakone in a very useful and interesting way. Hakone itself was beautiful, and I especially enjoyed visiting the checkpoint on the former Tokkaido Road and the replica waystation there. Kashima took care to optimize our time with him, and returned us exactly where we needed to be to continue our onward trip. Excellent day in Hakone with Kashima, and I would recommend!
Keith san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. I am very much pleased that you and your son could very much enjoyed this tour. Hakone is located in a big Caldera and 4 small calderas created inside the big caldera which had been created by repeated eruption from 40k years ago to 3k years ago. Those nature power had created lots of good hot springs and enormous beautiful nature such as Oowakudani valley, Lake-Ashi and small mountain accumulated by lava where Hakone shrine located. As such, Hakone is the nature and historical culture theme park with well prepared original transportation such as Hakone Tozan railway, cable car, Ropeway, Pirate cruising on Lake-Asi and Tozan bus. Thanks to you and your son strong curiosity, we could exchange various information and interesting conversation. I hope that you visit Japan again with your family in near future so that I can introduce other nice tour spots in Japan for you. Thanks, Kashima
Honest and hardworking person despite his age. Strong recommend.
Sanjay san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. We visited the most advanced and sophisticated town of Shibuya and Ginza. I am pleased that you could enjoy there including lots of various shopping at Ginza area. Also, we could exchange various information and funny conversation. I hope that you visit Japan again with your family in near future so that I can introduce other nice tour spots in Japan for you. Thanks, Kashima
We really enjoyed our tour of Kanazawa with Kashima. He knows the area well and was able to streamline the sights for us. Also, he is has a very pleasant personality and speaks English well. We highly recommend booking a tour with him.
Bruce san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. I am very much pleased that you could enjoy the Kanazawa tour with me. Kanazawa is said to be little Kyoto by the tour spots of Kanazawa Castle remains, Kenrokuen garden, Samurai residence, traditional shrine, fish market and so-on that are all related to the biggest feudal load as Maeda family during 16th century to 19th century. I think you could relax to see Kanazawa which are not so much jammed compared with Kyoto. We could make funny communication for various interesting topics. Thank you very much for your strong interest for Japanese culture and history. Kashima,
Dear Kashima san, Thank you so much for the wonderful trip. We really enjoyed the tour with your local experience and knowledge. Thank you once again
Manish san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. I am very much pleased that you could enjoy the Hakone tour with me. We visited the area of both Mt.Fuji and Hakone. In Mt.Fuji area, we visited Oshino- Hakkai & surrounding of Lake-Yamanaka. In Hakone, we could enjoy enormous nature such as Oowakudani valley & various riding such as cruising on Lake - Ashinoko and Ropeway. We could exchange lots of information for each tour spots with funny conversation. Again, thank you very much, Kashima