With my bus tour of Gokayama and Shirakawago concluded, I arrived back in Takayama in the late afternoon and before the sun went down I…
Continue reading → Takayama 2019: Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine (櫻山八幡宮)
Before leaving Ogimachi I crossed the river that runs along the west end of the village and went over to the Gassho-zukuri Minkaen. This is…
Continue reading → Shirakawago 2019: Ogimachi Village (荻町) Pt 3
Continuing my exploration of Ogimachi, I walked some more through the parts of the village with the most gassho-zukuri farmhouses. Everything was still wet from…
Continue reading → Shirakawago 2019: Ogimachi Village (荻町) Pt 2
The second stage of my bus tour through the mountains of central Japan brought me to the region of Shirakawago and the village of Ogimachi.…
Continue reading → Shirakawago 2019: Ogimachi Village (荻町) Pt 1
The first of the two villages that I’d be visiting as part of my day trip from Takayama was Ainokura, in the Gokayama region of…
I got up early the next morning and returned to the Takayama bus station to get on a tour bus that would take me deeper…
Continue reading → Shirakawago/Gokayama 2019: Heading deeper into the mountains
It was late afternoon when I arrived in Takayama but because the town is up in the mountains the days there are a bit shorter…
Most of the time when I was traveling between cities in Japan I would catch a ride on the country’s excellent train network, but when…
It was time to bid farewell to Kanazawa so I grabbed my backpack from my hostel and headed to Kanazawa Station. The Tsuzumi-mon (Drum Gate)…
A bridge over a modern road links Kanazawa Castle to the northwestern corner of the Kenrokuen Garden, meaning you can quickly go from one to…
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