{"id":280,"date":"2010-05-06T14:06:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T12:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-05-07T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:59:26","slug":"day-8-jour-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japan.atlanteans.net\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 \/ Jour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today visit of Nikko with an organized tour, departure was at 9am in Tokyo and took the group to the area of Nikko where everything would take place about 150km to the North, in the middle of the mountain.<\/p>\n

We first stopped at the Toshogu Shrine, that is the place where the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu had asked to be buried, and a little shrine to be built on the place. Although his grand son a few years later, being very proud of his grand father (bringing back peace to Japan) decided to make it a much bigger shrine that had a very high cost at the time of about 45 millions of Yens. In this place we could freely visit the various small temples and places around the the Shrine and get to the tomb itself. One of the place of interest had a dragon on it’s ceilling, what was amazing more than the picture itself is the sound that one monk was making with two batons together, under the tail there sure was sound, but once under the dragon head, the sound became completely different, which was very surprising.<\/p>\n

After this first visit we went to the restautant for lunch with a Japanese set of tempura and noodles, which was very nice as it was already late, or early in the afternoon. After this pause we went for two short sight seeing sequences, the first being on the shore of the Chuzenji lake at about 1700m of altitude. Then a few minutes from the lake we could see the Keigon’s fall from a little distance. The falls are very nice and they fall for about 90 meters. We had then a little time to check the souvenirs shop including one of poterie, one specialty of the Tochigi prefecture, before making the long trip back to Tokyo. One point to get to this height is that there are two roads, one to get up with 20 hairpin curves, and one to get down which have 28 hairpin curves, so to make the trip both ways a total of 48 curves to cross with the bus, which was quite impressive on the views we could get.<\/p>\n

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Aujourd’hui visite de Nikko avec un tour, organis\u00e9 au d\u00e9part de Tokyo \u00e0 9:00 qui emmena le groupe dans la zone de Nikko o\u00f9 toute la journ\u00e9e se d\u00e9roulerai, \u00e0 quelque 150km au Nord de Tokyo, en plein milieu des montagnes.<\/p>\n

Nous nous sommes d’abord arr\u00eat\u00e9 au Sanctuaire de Toshogu, qui est l’endroit o\u00f9 le Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu avait demand\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00eatre enterr\u00e9 et qu’un petit temple soit construit. Toutefois quelques temps plus tard son petit fils tr\u00e8s fier de ce qu’avais r\u00e9alis\u00e9 son grand-p\u00e8re (ramenait la paix au Japon) le fit agrandir \u00e0 un co\u00fbt fort \u00e9lev\u00e9 estim\u00e9 \u00e0 quelque 45 millions de Yens. En ce lieu nous avons aussi pu visiter les divers petit temples et lieux aux alentours, et voir le tombeau \u00e0 proprement parler. Un des lieux fort int\u00e9ressant et celui d’un petit temple poss\u00e9dant un dragon dessin\u00e9 sur son plafond, mais ce qui \u00e9tait encore plus impressionnant que le dragon c’\u00e9tait le son que le moine faisait en frappant deux morceau de bois entre eux, sous la queue rien de particulier, mais une fois sous la t\u00eate le son devint compl\u00e8tement diff\u00e9rent, ce qui \u00e9tait fort surprenant.<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s cette premi\u00e8re visite, direction le restaurant ou nous avons eu un d\u00e9jeuner compos\u00e9 de nouilles et de tempura, ce qui fut fort agr\u00e9able, la journ\u00e9e ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9j\u00e0 bien entam\u00e9e par le trajet et la premi\u00e8re visite. Apr\u00e8s cette pause d\u00e9jeuner, nous avons pu nous rendre sur deux zones pour quelques photos, tout d’abord sur les berges du Lac Chuzenji \u00e0 environ 1700m d’altitude. Apr\u00e8s quelques minutes plus loin nous avons pu d\u00e9couvrir les tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9ables Chutes d’eau de Keigon, qui font une hauteur d’\u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s 90m. Nous avons eues l\u00e0 aussi un peu de temps pour visiter les boutiques de souvenirs, incluant un bon nombre de poteries, une des sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9s de la pr\u00e9fecture de Tochigi, avant de reprendre le chemin pour Tokyo. L’un des points et que pour atteindre cette zone \u00e9lev\u00e9e il \u00e0 fallu passer par deux routes, l’une permettant de monter et pr\u00e9sentant 20 virages en \u00e9pingles \u00e0 cheveux, tandis que dans l’autre sens pour descendre il fallu en passer 28, certains \u00e9tant tr\u00e8s impressionnant.<\/p>\n

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Lire en fran\u00e7ais Today visit of Nikko with an organized tour, departure was at 9am in Tokyo and took the group to the area of Nikko where everything would take place about 150km to the North, in the middle of the mountain. We first stopped at the Toshogu Shrine, that is the place where the […]<\/p>\n

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