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TochigiShrines & TemplesKanuma
Imamiya Jinja
The float rite of the Kanuma Imamiya Jinja festival is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Yakumo Jinja
The Yamaage rite, in which a huge open-air stage is assembled. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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TochigiNature & SceneryNikko
Kegon no Taki
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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TochigiNature & SceneryNikko
Kegon Falls
A drop of 97 metres, one of the three great waterfalls of Japan. The water of Lake Chuzenji falls here.
TochigiHot Springs
TochigiNature & SceneryNikko
Lake Chuzenji
Formed when an eruption of Mount Nantai dammed the valley. It lies at 1,269 metres.
TochigiMuseumsUtsunomiya
Oya History Museum
A vast underground quarry. It averages 8 degrees year round and is used as a film location.
TochigiGardensAshikaga
Ashikaga Flower Park
A great wisteria 160 years old, known for its evening illumination.
TochigiFestivalsMashiko
Mashiko Pottery Fair
Five hundred stalls in spring and autumn. The town became known when Hamada Shoji settled here.
TochigiNature & SceneryNasu
Nasu Highland
A highland with an imperial villa, looking out on the fumes of Mount Chausu.
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TochigiHot SpringsNikko
Yumoto Onsen
A sulphur spring said to have been found by the monk Shodo, who opened Nikko.
TochigiHistoric DistrictsUtsunomiya
Utsunomiya Gyoza
Repatriates brought the taste back from Manchuria. The city competes for the top spot in national consumption.
TochigiHistoric DistrictsTochigi
Kura no Machi
It prospered on river traffic along the Uzuma. Black-lacquered merchant storehouses line the street.
TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Buttsuke
Carved floats face one another and compete in music, in a contest called buttsuke.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
One of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Utsunomiya Museum of Art
A low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Oyaji and Peace Kannon
A Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
TochigiArchitectureUtsunomiya
Oya Stone Buildings
The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.