Articles of category "Nikko"

Ninety percent of Japan's land is covered with mountains and is surrounded by the sea. Many mid-size and small islands host wild habitats and all this creates many fascinating and unusual scenes. National Parks in Japan reflect these peculiarities of the Japanese landscape and wildlife; today, there are twenty-seven of them, covering more than five percent of the total land area. The Nikko National Park is one of the most beautiful and peculiar national parks in Japan, designated as the World Heritage Site.

Japanese macaques (nihonzaru) only live in Japan. Their ancestors moved from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese archipelago somewhere between three hundred and five hundred thousand years ago; hence, in Japan, human beings and wild monkeys have coexisted for tens of thousands of years. These funny animals, which we are used to see in zoos and circuses, live freely in many Japan's national parks and tourists can see them in their natural habitat.