Wednesday:

A two hour train journey this morning gets us to Nikko. Nikko is designated a national park and there are lots of elaborate temples and woodland. There is definately too much to see here in one day. We found a path that lead us up the mountain side, it was very quiet and we felt compelled to walk up there. Part way up there was a strange, small and padlocked door at the side of the path but we couldnt work out what it was for. At the top was a shrine with some headless buddahs outside of it, we assume the heads had worn away with age. On our return journey to Tokyo we sat in the train station watching a thunder storm whilst waiting for a train, I can't say I enjoyed this.