Nikko is a paltry city at the entrance to Nikko National lawns. It is most famous for the Toshogu, Japan’s most lavishly decorated statue complex and mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Nikko has been a nerve center of Shinto and Buddhist mountain adoration for many centuries, and Nikko National Park continues to name scenic, spacious landscapes, lakes, waterfalls, thorny springs, inhuman monkeys and hiking trails.

Nikko and the area around Lake Chuzenji, i…