Located along Japan’s scenic ‘Romantic Road’, within the mountainous landscapes of Nikko National Park, Nikko is famous for its exquisite ancient shrines and temples, as well as the rich fiery shades of its autumn trees. Dating to the 1600s, Toshogu is the country’s most lavishly decorated shrine, featuring intricate wood carvings, gold-leaf details, vivid paintings, and a five-storey pagoda. Set amid dense forests, it contains the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established the powerful Tokugawa Shogunate that governed Japan for nearly three centuries. Nikko National Park is renowned for its spectacular natural vistas of lakes, waterfalls, mountains and forest.