Yudaki waterfall
Lake Yunoko
Onsen shrine
Onsen-ji temple
Yumoto visitors' center
Short stroll in Yumoto
Lake Karikomi
Lake Kirikomi
Konsei mountain pass
Yumoto spa in 1879
Leisure

*Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center

You will be able to get necessary information to touch the nature of Oku-Nikko. Ministry of Environment opened this facility in 1994. Visitors will understand the nature of Oku-Nikko through the panel exhibition video and seasonal events.


Nikko Yumoto Visitors' Center


You will find "Oku-Nikko Real Time Information" soon after you entered the building. It announces about weather, traffic, camping, mountain climbing and skiing. Also, you can get information of bloom on walking path and mountain trail. Moreover, the use situation of each institution will be told.

In exhibition corner, you will be informed about wild bird, flower, insect, animal, and tree. In addition to that, there is a small library, which arranges data of animal and plant. You will identify the bird or plant that you saw on the hiking course.



Message board of the Oku-Nikko Real Time Information


Varieties of events are carried out in the visitors' center. Those events will be arranged by season, but any event can entertain visitors. Some events require participation fee, so please contact the visitors' center in advance. Following events were taken before.

*Guide walk
Walk around the Yumoto in the morning and the evening. Each time takes you about 1 hour to finish. Guides explain plant, animal, lake and mountain.


*Straw sandals making (300 yen)
Trial for handmade straw sandals


*Deer watching
Observe the wild Nihonjika (Sika deer) with strolling in the forest

*Clean hiking
Hiking with picking up trashes


*Trout watching
Watching the homing of trout at the river, which flows into the Lake Chuzenji

*Animal tracking
Tracking the foot print of animal with wearing snow shoe



Full of information about Oku-Nikko


Nikko Tourist Information Center
591, Gokomachi area, Nikko, Tochigi, Postal code:321-1404
TEL: +81-288-54-2496 FAX: +81-288-54-2495