Nikko Japan - A trip to a cabin

The day after Christmas we headed off in a huge rental conversion van with our good friends The Allisons to a cabin in Nikko Japan for two nights. Nikko is located about 90 miles north of Tokyo. In good Japanese fashion it took us about 5 hours to drive 130 miles. Boy was it worth the wait. The guys managed to get us there with only 1 turn around. If you were to see the directions we had you too would be very impressed. We stayed at a place called Woodsman Village. It has about 6 cabins of varying sizes. The snow was lightly falling as we pulled in...it was very picturesque. After the guys checked us in we headed to the cabin to get unloaded.


Here are the girls in front of the office. There was a cute little snowman that they had their sights set on building for themselves.

One of the first things we did was get a fire lite so the girls could roast marshmallows. Jennie and I split cooking the meals and we grilled out over that fire each night. That was the best tasting food and probably something we will never be able to recreate.

The fridge was very small so we ended up chilling all of our wine outside in the snow.

While Jennie and I got dinner ready Chad helped the girls build their minature snowman.

After a great night of eating, drinking and talking we got up the next morning and drove up Mount Nantai. It was snowing pretty hard and we had to stop half way up the mountain to put the snow chains on. Somehow these tiny Japanese cars were barreling up the mountain, but we were slipping and sliding. The guys did a great job getting them on while it was freezing and snowing and we were at a serious incline. Once at the top of the mountain we stopped at Kegan Falls and took the elevator down to the base of the fall. The fall was partially frozen and at some point in winter it freezes all the way.

Lauren had a great time having a snowball fight with Daddy and John.


Another magnificent sight to see is Lake Chuzenji. It was huge and very windy and cold there.

This is the Tori gate on the way into town.

The Toshogu Shrine is a very famous shrine in Japan. It has the wooden see no evel, hear no evil, speak no evil monkeys there.

Here we are waking up our last morning there. These are the futons that all Japanese people sleep on. They were not as uncomfortable as they look.



We had a fantastic weekend. It was wonderful to get away to see such a beautiful part of Japan.