We got up early, had breakfast at the hostel and were driven to Nikko station where we left our luggage in the biggest lockers we had seen in Japan! From there we took a bus to Akechidaira and then the ropeway up the mountain to get a nice view of Lake Chuzenji and the Kegon Falls. We took another bus to get to the Kegon Falls which are 97 meters high and pretty impressive! From there we took the bus along Lake Chuzenji and got off at the Ryuzu Falls. We had lunch by the falls and then walked all the way up along the river. It was very nice cause the Ryuzu falls are actually 210 meters long and the forest surrounding it is very calm and beautiful. Then we walked for two and a half hours over a wooden boardwalk, through the fields and the forest, with some amazing views! It was some of the most beautiful scenery we have seen so far, probably also thanks to the weather, which was perfect! We got to the Yutaki falls, which were even more spectacular than the other ones, due to the impressive amount of water falling down! From there we took the bus back to Nikko station and then the train to Asakusa in Tokyo. We walked back to the hostel and found our English backpacker friends from Mount Fuji (they all studied in York university and went to Lancaster for the Roses, isn't that crazy?). We all went to a sushi-belt restaurant for dinner, supposedly the best one in Tokyo. It was delicious! Then we took the metro to Roppongi and walked around aimlessly until we found another english guy who took us to the Sportsbar. There we had a few drinks and played a game of pool against the slowest players ever, some business guys from Norway... We took the metro back and then walked to a karaoke bar in Asakusa. We found out that Nat is definitely the worst singer ever, followed by Pierre, and that Ed and John actually know how to sing!
Bad news of the day: Nat's camera started making "ghost" pictures, turning everything all white whenever using the zoom... also, Nat's video camera is having hard disk problems and works whenever it wants to...
Weather: very sunny, but not too warm
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