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Mt. Nikko, Rinno-ji

An age of the tree for more than 500 years and Meio which calls spring in Mt. Nikko

It's also one of three cathedrals of Tendai Sect. A large main hall "Three Buddhist sanctum (Make, it's hit, how is it?)" is built in the Heian Period at the biggest wooden building in Mt. Nikko, and is designated as important cultural property. That it's in the large main hall vestibule, "diamond cherry tree". The kind makes a flower of a white large wheel bloom by the mutation kind of mountain cherries. In every spring, the form of the fascinating cherry tree and the elegant view of "three Buddhist sanctum" made majestic delight tourist's eye.
The shape of the tree with rare kind from which the back and 4 of shikan grew newly that a diamond cherry tree was transplanted in Meiji Period is also a point of enjoyment. In a case only of the tour of a cherry tree, the inspection ticket is unnecessary (It's restrictive in inspection time.)

[Bloom time] at the beginning of ordinary year April.
[Best time] ordinary year mid-to-late April
[The kind of cherry trees] mountain cherry (the mutation kind)

Mt. Nikko, Rinno-ji

• 2300 in Tochigi-ken Nikko Ichiyama MAP
• It's a car from JRNikko station and the Tobu Railway Tobu Nikko station, about 10 minutes
• From JRNikko station and the Tobu Railway Tobu Nikko station, embussment and "Shin-kyo Bridge" getting off for about 5 minutes on foot
• 4-October 8:00-17:00 and 11-March 8:00-16:00 (for the last reception, before 30 minutes)
• Homotsuden and Shoyo Sono For the change of display and a Rinno-ji event, there is fixed period closure about about 10 times a year.
• Three Buddhist sanctum ticket An adult of 400 yen and elementary and junior high schoolers of 200 yen
  Taiyu-in ticket An adult of 550 yen and elementary and junior high schoolers of 250 yen
  Homotsuden and Shoyo Sono ticket An adult of 300 yen and elementary and junior high schoolers of 100 yen
  ※ With sale on a set ticket
• 0288-54-0531
• Payment required
• The admission charge is unnecessary for a tour of a diamond cherry tree.
  
  

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Nikko highway

Sakuranamiki which blooms in the Nikko highway where historical taste overflows and rises

One of Gokaido arranged in the Edo Period "Nikko highway" (number 119 of present national highway). It's a row of trees made of a villager's along a highway planting a plant of the mountain cherry bought at fund-raising in 1951 (1951). An excellent big tree as much as about 1500 leads to about 16 km of area where I go north around Yamaguchi of Nikko city from Kamitomatsuri, Utsunomiya-shi. Many flower viewing visitors are also enjoying a drive through "tunnel of a cherry tree" out the prefecture full-blown time. There is a sidewalk along a highway and the cherry tree sightseeing which is on foot is also possible. A storm of falling cherry blossoms of the time which has begun to scatter as well as the time of full bloom is flooding the feelings which are to the extent I move a heart beautifully, again.
The row of cedars which connects follows World heritage "shrines and temples in Nikko" ahead of Sakuranamiki, and the old road walk which is while driving expectation in the Edo Period can be enjoyed fully.

[Bloom time] at the beginning of ordinary year April.
[Best time] the beginning of ordinary year April-middle ten days
[The kind of cherry trees] mountain cherry

Nikko highway

• Kamitomatsuri, Utsunomiya-shi, Tochigi Yamaguchi of 3-Nikko city MAP
• It's a car from JR Utsunomiya Station, about 25 minutes
• Embussment and "Kamitomatsuri small entrance" get off JR Utsunomiya Station, immediately.
• 028-632-2445 (Utsunomiya sightseeing convention society)

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Kinugawa park

Contest of the weeping cherry tree with the beautiful pink shade

From Kinugawa Koen Station, about 3 minutes on foot. I cross a railroad track by a pedestrian overpass and approach a park. The place by the relaxation where the outdoors stage is established and also utilized for a meeting place of a festival and an event in a square in a park. When the weeping cherry tree I line up will be best time so that it may be circled turning around around the square, the states which bloom simultaneously are highlights. As flower color becomes dark in full bloom, the weeping cherry tree which has just bloomed changes into the light color, so the respective bloom can enjoy the pink shade. There is a tree by which the next "Kinugawa elementary school" is a Someiyoshino cherry tree along a site, and it's possible to compare 2 kinds of cherry tree. The nature a flower of Dog-tooth violet also blooms in the site in other spring, and which is abundant, with freeness, you can taste.
One-day visit bathing Property is also established attached to a park. hot spring of source 100% can be enjoyed fully in Outdoor hot spring in a garden look. When it's gentle in alkaline simple hot spring per skin, it's famous.

[Bloom time] there is a fluctuation by a※ year at the middle of ordinary year April.
[Best time] there is a fluctuation by a※ year at the middle of ordinary year April.
[The kind of cherry trees] weeping cherry tree

Kinugawa park

• Fujiwara of a Tochigi Nikko city MAP
• From Tobu Railway Kinugawa Koen Station, about 3 minutes on foot
• 0288-22-1525 (Nikko city tourist association)
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KinugawaHot spring shrine for the war dead and hot spring shrine

The light up of the cherry tree which shines by a night sky is worth a glance.

The shrine from which it's about 1 km next to "Kinugawahot spring ropeway" to the southwest from Tobu Railway Kinugawa Koen Station. "Gokoku Shrine" and "hot spring shrine" are in the same site. The Sando which was circled by a Someiyoshino cherry tree when I passed through the 1st of Torii. A precinct of the salted cherry leave which blooms and Gokoku Shrine seems to display the 2nd of Torii from stone steps ahead of it, and it's an ideal photography spot.
"KinugawaHot spring light up-Kinugawa Man Sogo of cherry blossoms by night" performed at 2 precincts as the event site- (old big banquet of cherry blossoms by night) is a grave event in a Kinugawahot spring village. A meeting place be the cherry tree lit up, and wrap yourself up in the fantastic atmosphere, using kaguraden, music and a dance are shown.

[Bloom time] April first ten days possibility
[Best time] April first ten days possibility
[The kind of cherry trees] Someiyoshino cherry tree
※ I sometimes fluctuate by the climates.

▼ Kinugawahot spring light up-Kinugawa Man Sogo of cherry blossoms by night-
Date: 2026 year April 3 (Fri)-12 day (Sun)18:00-20:30
Place :Kinugawahot spring Shrine for the war dead and hot spring shrine precinct
The charge: Free.
URL:https://www.nikko-kankou.org/spot/591

KinugawaHot spring shrine for the war dead and hot spring shrine

• Tochigi Nikko city Kinugawahot spring fall 834-45 MAP
• From Tobu Railway Kinugawa Koen Station, about 15 minutes on foot
• 0288-22-1525 (Nikko city tourist association)
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Yayoi festival

The festival by which a showy Hanaya body (nose and red snapper) pays out and tells a visit in spring

"Nikko, Futarasan-jinja" annual festival with tradition in more than 1200. Because it was performed in March, former days are called "Yayoi festival". It starts with a Mikoshi Shrine ornamental festival on April 13 (it's pith, in case of display) every year, and when a main festival on the 17th ends, I end. The eve and the main festival by which it's 16 days I enliven the whole town quickly, and to peak. The Hanaya body decorated with an artificial flower of showy YASHIOTSUTSUJI from a town in eastern and western 11 (float) dispatches to a city and a Futarasan-jinja precinct, and I parade while playing a Nikko musical accompaniment.
The violent form that Hanaya body runs up a slope of Futarasan-jinja by a main festival and the business card exchange performed at a precinct are also a recommended highlight. Because this festival which esteems the old institution will be "GOTA" of the town unit (trouble) when I have to advance it to the formality street in everything, and I make a mistake in one, an another name with "GOTA festival". It's also designated as intangible folk cultural properties of prefecture designation.

▼ Yayoi festival
Time frame: Every year April 13-April 17
Place :Nikko Futarasan-jinja, Takio shrine, Shin-kyo Bridge, Motomiya shrine and Nikko town
The charge: Free.
Telephone: 0288-22-1525 (Nikko city tourist association)
Parking: payment required
Remarks:http://www.nikko-kankou.org/event/26/
URL:http://www.futarasan.jp/yayoi/

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Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine spring Regular grand Festival

Much Shinto Ceremony is magnificent, saigyou, grand festival of impression perfection

The record-high festival of "Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine" performed to May 17th-the 18th every year. "Yabusame (short-tailed bush warbler) Shinto Ceremony" is performed on the Omotesando major street on the 17th. The bow judgment of the marksman from the horse top who dashes is excellent, and big clapping happens from a meeting place. A Mikoshi Shrine going out festival on the 18th (that it's pith, GYO SAI) is the solemn Shinto Ceremony which reproduced the line when Sunpu (present Shizuoka ) reburied a spirit of the dead person of Tokugawa leyasu to Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine from Kuno-zan (KUNOUZAN). More than 1200 people circle Mikoshi Shrine the soldier who wore armor (armor), the spear durability and the gun durability, and paraded "hyakumonoyusennin soldier procession" is the biggest highlight of a festival. The ancient rite which leaves Nikko Futarasan-jinja and goes around Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine, Omotesando and "otabisho (OTABISHO" with Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine again is fact guaranteeing charmed by a picture scroll the admirable time.

▼ Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine spring Regular grand Festival
Time frame: Every year May 17-the 18th
Meeting place :Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko Futarasan-jinja and Tosho-gu Shrine otabisho
The charge: The tour of spring Regular grand Festival is free.
Telephone: 0288-54-0560
Without Parking:
URL:https://www.tochigiji.or.jp/event/e15062

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Nikko cherry tree migration

From a famous place to the happy hunting ground. In the delicacy which is time limitation of a cherry tree concerning a distinguished tree of a cherry tree, gusto

Time frame limitation event which enjoys close to 30 which are between "Mt. Nikko, Rinno-ji" from Nikko station concerning a distinguished tree of a cherry tree. Flower viewing sightseeing is begun with the event pamphlet put in the station yard in one hand. The cherry tree which exceeds an age of the tree for 200 years in Nikko, everywhere, the kind has that and is also various. Even a distinguished tree in the personal home it's usually difficult to notice a weeping cherry tree of "Takada family" where in addition to a diamond salted cherry leave of "Mt. Nikko, Rinno-ji" and a weeping cherry of "the Tobu Nikko station" is introduced completely. I think of time to enjoy the artistic respective cherry trees out while defending manners, and it's in something deep.
Time frame limitation goods for a cherry tree and the menu are prepared at a long-established store and a noted store beyond 70 stores where a Nikko highway (number 119 of national highway) is here along Menuki Street. While it's cherry tree enjoyment, the taste of the spring I feel like dropping in when is filling.

▼ Nikko cherry tree migration
Time frame: ※ time is different depending on each famous places and emporiums on April 1, 2026-on April 26.
Around meeting place :JRNikko station Tobu Railway Tobu Nikko station-Nikko Tosho-gu Shrine
Without Parking:
Telephone: 0288-22-1525 (Nikko city tourist association)
URL:https://www.nikko-kankou.org/event/598