Japan Trip 24 Sept - 01 Oct 2013: Toshogu Shrine, Nikko

The Main Entrance to Toshogu Shrine (Nikko Heritage Center). It is a complex of shrines and temples.

My hotel (ryokan) in Nikko was only 5 minutes walk to this place. I made the right choice :p. Coming here is also very easy if your hotel is quite challenging for walking. There are buses every 15 minutes. You can buy 1 day or 4 days bus ticket to reach all tourist destination in Nikko. This city is on mountain hill. Really beautiful and recommended to visit.


The entrance to one of the buildings. Best to visit before 9 am as after breakfast time tourists will come and swarm this location.

Some buildings are forbidden, no entrance. This one, we can only enter from the right side. Taking off sandals and shoes. No camera is allowed.

I met Kikiyo. They are few of them. I wonder if they have power like in manga stories of female monks?

Couple dipercaya kalau memutari lingkaran ini sebanyak 3x, masuk dan keluar dalam formasi 8, akan berjodoh atau awet. Sayangnya aku sendiri, jd cuma bisa ambil photo aja. :p Next time maybe I can come with someone special here?

 Mungkin di pohon keramat ini Inuyasha disegel.

Tambatkan harapan, shio dan hasil ramalanmu di gantungan ini. Bisa di balok kayu ini atau yang berbentuk dibawah ini.

Unik bentuknya. Ikat aja ramalan yg sudah kamu beli scr random di byk box yg tersedia (100 Y) disini.

Tips: Didalam area ga ada yg jual makan dan minum. Bawa minum dari hotel. Diluar area tepatnya di parkiran baru ada. Kedua, tempat sampah jarang ada di Jepang terutama di public space. Karena kurang umum org makan sambil jalan. Menghindari "nyampah" juga. Jadi taruh di tasmu. Di main building ada juru photo jg yg sediain service photo.

Japan Trip 24 Sept - 01 Oct 2013: Mount Fuji

Mount Fuji Information Center. The leaves have started to change colors. Too bad I arrived a week earlier. It will change to full multi colors then.

Mas ganteng. Huaaaa.. He was sitting next to me during the full day trip but I didn't exchange name and contact with him. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid!






Mount Fuji 5th Station. It was foggy and crowded. Very cold! I had to wear my sweater. But I forgot to ask someone to take a picture of me. Hehe... Souvenir shops are heaven to me!

 







Entrance to the shrine. Met other Indonesians. I didn't say hi. Maybe I was just pretending to be a Japanese like they thought I am. Anyway, it's so foggy we couldn't see the summit of Mt.Fuji. Tour guide said it means that we have to come back to Japan again. Haha.. nice catch!