Nikko Toshogu

日光東照宮

Nikko · Tochigi (Nikko) · Nikko & Kita-Kanto

UNESCO World Heritage

Since

1617

The shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum and the most extravagantly carved complex in Japan — five hundred colours of gold leaf, the sleeping cat, the three wise monkeys. It anchors any Nikko golf day; the courses sit under the same cedar mountains.