栃木県 · Shrines & temples
Yashamon
日光市 県北
Four yaksha guard Iemitsu's mausoleum. A carving on one of them is said to be the origin of the Japanese word for kneecap.
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Ogoto Jinja
壬生町 県央
The tutelary shrine of the Mibu domain.
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Imamiya Jinja
鹿沼市 県央
The float rite of the Kanuma Imamiya Jinja festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Nasu Jinja
大田原市 県北
Nasu no Yoichi is said to have prayed here before shooting the fan.
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Yakumo Jinja
那須烏山市 県東
The Yamaage rite, in which a huge open-air stage is assembled. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Bakedoro
日光市 県北
A lantern said to shift its shape at night, bearing more than seventy sword cuts.
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Kegon no Taki
日光市 県北
A drop of 97 metres. The monk Shodo is said to have found it, and it served as a place of ascetic practice.
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Oya Chika
宇都宮市 県央
A worked-out Oya stone quarry. The sheer size of the underground space is itself the object of awe.
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Kegon Falls
日光市 県北
A drop of 97 metres, one of the three great waterfalls of Japan. The water of Lake Chuzenji falls here.
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Kinugawa Onsen
日光市 県北
Inns line the gorge. It was once open only to daimyo and monks.
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Lake Chuzenji
日光市 県北
Formed when an eruption of Mount Nantai dammed the valley. It lies at 1,269 metres.
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Oya History Museum
宇都宮市 県央
A vast underground quarry. It averages 8 degrees year round and is used as a film location.
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Ashikaga Flower Park
足利市 県南
A great wisteria 160 years old, known for its evening illumination.
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Mashiko Pottery Fair
益子町 県東
Five hundred stalls in spring and autumn. The town became known when Hamada Shoji settled here.
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Nasu Highland
那須町 県北
A highland with an imperial villa, looking out on the fumes of Mount Chausu.
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Senjogahara
日光市 県北
A marsh where the gods are said to have fought. Boardwalks run across it.
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Yumoto Onsen
日光市 県北
A sulphur spring said to have been found by the monk Shodo, who opened Nikko.
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Utsunomiya Gyoza
宇都宮市 県央
Repatriates brought the taste back from Manchuria. The city competes for the top spot in national consumption.
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Kura no Machi
栃木市 県南
It prospered on river traffic along the Uzuma. Black-lacquered merchant storehouses line the street.
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Kanuma Buttsuke
鹿沼市 県央
Carved floats face one another and compete in music, in a contest called buttsuke.
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Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
宇都宮市 県央
One of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
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Utsunomiya Museum of Art
宇都宮市 県央
A low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
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Oya History Museum
宇都宮市 県央
Seventy years of quarrying left a cathedral-scale void underground - architecture made purely by subtraction.
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Oyaji and Peace Kannon
宇都宮市 県央
A Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
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