So we just got off the bus near the waterfall but we're going to grab food first.
We're always hungry
I enjoyed yesterday's yuba soba so much
that I got the same thing today, except for the hot version
What did you get, Grace?
I got a hamburg, hamburger thing
With this fog, there is a very good chance we'll see very little to nothing
You can hear it
It's
I don't know where it is
It's somewhere in this cloud
Such amazing views
Do you guys see it?
It's ok, with the power of photoshop you'll see it
Kegon Falls guys
Such a disappointment
Ifreaking love waterfalls
My phone picked up a better image than my camera
Waterfall purikura
I closed my eyes kind of
Oh, I actually really like these
These are cute
Although I stood in the way of the waterfall in both photos
I'm very sorry about that
That spider is so freaking big!!
So much lake behind me
that I cannot see
We're currently on set of 2016's biggest horror movie coming out
called 'Swamp....
Goosebumps'
The lake we're at is called Lake Chuzenji
It's THE big and famous lake here
I got ice cream
nama yuba sashimi
and Grace is getting some
Wow, it's so good
It really tastes different than the two previous ones I had
Nama yuba
Bye bye!
Until next time
Back on the bus
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil
Toshogu Shrine is the final resting place of Tokugawa Ieyasu
who's family ruled over Japan for 250 years
He's enshrined here as a deity which makes him the first shogun of his family
and also a god by Shinto religion
Wow, it's so beautiful
Toshogu Shrine is the most famous shrine here in Nikko
It's the one that, for hundreds of years
people would come make pilgrimages to so it's very important
And just the nature surrounding this place really adds to the beauty here
The trees are amazingly tall and huge
and so stoic, it's just an extremely beautiful and impressive place
I have to say, this place feels really special.
A lot of the shrines you go to are really crowded
in the middle of the city, but over here, it's got like this amazing mystic quality
I don't know if it's just the fog all around me or that combined with the nature
but it really feels different
So this is the part that is currently under renovation
and you can see them working on it
It's pretty cool
It's so peaceful here
Idon't want to leave
There is some weird screaming going on right by the temple
we're going to check out what it is
It kind of sounds like small children dying
It's kendo
So freaking cool
This is the most epic place to practice kendo in
We made it to the city center a bit early so we have a few more options for food
We decided on sushi because the restaurant looks really really good
I'm excited
We have nigiri
sashimi
yuba
and stuff
So they brought us an iPad showing us how they make yuba
So you can see it's just the sheet off the top of tofu
it's very special in this region
It's available at almost every restaurant
If you look at it closely, you can see that it's jsut rolled thin sheets
An awesome awesome awesome dinner
It was a very very good dinner
Nikko by night
We're done, time to head back to the lodge
How was it?
Very relaxing
We got some late night music and beers going
while I upload videos again