After Kasama, the tour visited two artists and the Ibaraki Ceramics Museum before arriving at the Niki Club, a chic modern spa hotel in the woods designed with elegant simplicity by Terence Conran in the early 1990s.
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Niki Club main building |
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Niki Club villas |
The food at the Niki Club is fusion, mostly Western with strong Japanese influence, beautifully presented. Here are a couple of examples.
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Dinner at the Niki Club |
Our excursion was to Nikko, a beautiful mountain town that is the home of the famous Toshogu Shrine, where we received special blessings, including a blessing of the tour itself, which proved to be very useful as we dodged three typhoons and an earthquake in the course of our itinerary.
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Toshogu Shrine |
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Toshogu - blessing of the tour and its members |
It's always good to have the gods on your side.
Bobby Jay
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Three typhoons and an earthquake! Mother nature was full of surprises!
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