Updates 2!

That was Tuesday! I had one busy weekend-for me at least. Unfortunately Peter and I left a little bit late (around 10am) so we weren't able to see everything that we had been planning on seeing.
We had to wait for almost an hour in Asakusa (which is fortunately a great place for tourists). Then we took a two and a half hour train ride north, through mostly small farms and rice fields upon where I made the astute observation that whoever names the train stations are not very creative. It's not uncommon to see a station called, for example "Name" and then go through the next station "Shin-Name"(New-Name) followed by "Higashi-Name" (East-Name). I suppose when you have a lot of train stations you run out of good names pretty quickly!

Anyways we got to Nikko (oh yes, that's where we went by the way) at 2:30 and were told that the shrine their closes at 3:30 (doh!). So we rushed there and saw what we could before it closed. There was a lot we couldn't see because we only had about 20 minutes before it closed and we decided it wasn't worth the 1300 yen for 20 minutes. We also wanted to go see some beautiful waterfalls about 50 minutes by bus outside of town but we decided to forego that because of how ungodly early it gets dark in this country! We did however manage to see the Sacred Bridge (pics to follow)