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- Ashikaga Gakkō — Japan's oldest school (足利学校) Documented from 1439: in 1549 Xavier called it the largest university in the Kantō.
- Edo Wonderland Nikkō Edomura (江戸ワンダーランド日光江戸村) It is the set of the NHK drama ‘Beranbō’: an Edo village rebuilt on 49.5 hectares.
- Former Ashikaga Nishi High School (旧足利西高等学校) A high school closed in 2009 that became the most used school filming set in Japan: over 210 productions.
- Ichikai Shibazakura Park (市貝町芝ざくら公園) 280,000 phlox plants over 18,000 sq m: one of the largest areas in Honshū.
- Kanmangafuchi — the Jizō statues (憾満ヶ淵) About 70 Jizō along the river: they are called ‘bake-jizō’ because everyone counts a different number.
- Karasawayama-jinja — the cat shrine (唐澤山神社) 8 m high walls of a mountain castle, a historic site since 2014: today cats live there.
- Kegon Falls (華厳の滝) A 97-metre drop: since 1930 a lift has gone down 100 m through the rock so you can see it from below.
- Kinu-Tateiwa Suspension Bridge (鬼怒楯岩大吊橋) 140 metres long, hanging 40 above the Kinugawa: they call it the ‘bridge that binds ties’.
- Kirasse — Utsunomiya's gyōza house (来らっせ 本店) Five long-standing restaurants under one roof, plus a counter rotating 30 flavours of gyōza.
- Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (益子陶芸美術館) In the garden stands the actual house of Hamada Shōji, a Living National Treasure, here since 1930.
- Mount Iwafune — former quarry (岩船山) 600 steps up to Kōshō-ji, one of Japan's three shrines for children.
- Mount Ōhira Hydrangea Steps (太平山あじさい坂) A thousand steps lined with 2,500 hydrangeas, planted in 1974 by a local Lions Club.
- Nakagawa Suiyuen It is the largest river aquarium in Japan and the only aquarium in the whole of Tochigi Prefecture, with 330 species ranging from the Naka…
- Nasu Animal Kingdom (那須どうぶつ王国) The Pallas's cat theme song has passed 3.88 million views on YouTube.
- Nasu Safari Park (那須サファリパーク) Only 300 white lions exist in the world, and some of them live free here.
- Nikkō Tamozawa Goyōtei (日光田母沢御用邸記念公園) 106 rooms and 4,471 m²: Japan's largest wooden building from the Meiji and Taishō eras.
- Nikkō Tōshō-gū (日光東照宮) Hidari Jingorō's sleeping cat watches over Ieyasu's mausoleum: UNESCO since 1999.
- Nikkō-zan Rinnō-ji (日光山輪王寺) The gilded Buddha reaches 7.56 m: the temple (1647) is the largest wooden building in the east.
- Ōya Quarry Museum (大谷資料館) 20,000 sq m dug over 70 years (1919–1986): during the war it was a secret fighter-plane factory.
- Ōya-ji — Ōya Kannon (大谷寺) The Peace Kannon, 27 m, was carved by hand into the rock between 1948 and 1954.
- Ryūōkyō Gorge (龍王峡) Volcanic rock 22 million years old: 3 km of gorge, free to walk, between two spa towns.
- Ryuzu Falls (Ryūzu no Taki) The water descends for about 210 metres over a lava flow from Mount Nantai, in a gorge about ten metres wide, and from late September the…
- Senjogahara Plateau It is part of the 260.41 hectares of wetland entered on the Ramsar list on 8 November 2005, crossed by wooden boardwalks that protect the…
- Sesshō-seki — the killing stone (殺生石) The stone from the legend of the nine-tailed fox split in two on 5 March 2022.
- Shika-no-yu — the deer's baths (鹿の湯) Six baths between 41 and 48 degrees, open for 1,300 years: Bashō passed through here on his way north.
- Shimazaki Cave Cellar (島崎酒造 どうくつ酒蔵) 600 m of wartime tunnels at a constant 10°C, now the cellar for Tōrikishi sake.
- Tōbu World Square (東武ワールドスクウェア) 140,000 residents 7 cm tall populate 102 buildings at 1:25 scale, 49 of them UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
- Tochigi Flower Center (とちぎ花センター) A greenhouse of 2,225 sq m and 22.5 m, among the largest in Japan: it houses the rare jade vine.
- Tonarie Utsunomiya (トナリエ宇都宮) Connected to the west exit of Utsunomiya Station by a walkway, at Ekimae-dōri 1-4-6.
- Utsunomiya Food Stall Alley (宇都宮屋台横丁) 23 stalls in an alley, 10 minutes from the Tōbu station: gyōza, oden, Taiwanese food.
- Utsunomiya Kyowa University — Nasu campus (宇都宮共和大学 那須キャンパス) Nasu campus of Utsunomiya Kyōwa University.
- Yutaki Falls It drops about 70 metres in height across a front 110 metres wide, from the lava wall that the Mitake flow formed by damming the Yugawa…