the nearly 400-year-old Shinkyo Bridge serves as the sacred gateway to Nikko and the Toshogu Shrine complex. Hiroshi Okamoto The forest trail I was hiking into the Kiso Mountains of Japan had the ...

I’m in Nikko National Park, in Japan’s Tochigi prefecture ... is only a short walk from the 17th-century Shinkyo Bridge, which forms the entrance to the area’s premier attraction, a vast ...

Every fall, visitors flock to Tochigi Prefecture to experience the stunning koyo (autumn foliage) in Nikko. Located less than ...