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Niko Nikko
Nikko is about 2 hours outside of Tokyo and known for the mausoleum and shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603. The 200 years for which his family ruled also became known as the Edo period, a time of great economic and intellectual development that ended with the Meiji Restoration and the…