Three landmarks of the city of Nikko in Japan is known as under his own and under the name Nishi-itize, which means "two Shinto shrines and one Buddhist temple". These attractions include the sanctuary of Tosya-GU, futarasan Shrine and temple Rinnoji. They are objects of UNESCO world heritage sites on their territory in General, there are more than a hundred architectural monuments.

Sanctuary futarasan Shrine and temple Rinnoji were based Buddhist preacher Gray-Senin. He first ascended to the top of the sacred volcano Nantian height of about 2, 5 thousand meters, and when I come down, in 766 founded at its foot Buddhist temple, originally called Saerozi, and a Shinto Shrine Hongu Shrine (later futarasan Shrine). Nikko considered to be the main place in Eastern Japan, where you can worship the deities of the mountains, and in the kamakura period (XII-XIV century) temples of Nikko were considered the dwelling place of the deity, the patron of the military estate, and received a large religious influence.

The temple of Saerozi in the seventeenth century passed to the Buddhist Tendai sect and was renamed Rinnoji. In the temple complex consists of 15 small temples. In the Hall of the three Buddhas, the largest in Nikko, stored three gilded statues of the Buddha Amida, thousand-armed Kannon and Bato Kannon – goddess of mercy, is depicted with a horse's head. This structure is the pillar of the world of Sorento – bronze construction with the nine rings that holds a thousand Buddhist sutras. Other Buddhist relics are in the halls of Hokkaido and Jegede, connected by a corridor. Temple treasures of the Edo period in the territory Rinnoji stored in the structure of Hemotoxin.

Bronze figure of a monk and the founder of the Gray-Senin installed at the entrance to the temple. Around Rinnoji was a garden EEC-EN, which has been preserved since the beginning of the Edo period and represents a sample of kausiki – one of the areas of Japanese gardening. Parks and gardens in this style is designed for the perception of the surrounding scenery while walking around the pond.