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Shirakawago 2019: Ogimachi Village (荻町) Pt 1

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.…

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…

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…

Kanazawa is home to the Kenrokuen Garden, one of Japan’s premier landscape gardens, and on certain days in the autumn you can tour the garden…

Much of Kanazawa Castle no longer exists but in the southern area of the castle you the old walls are still standing and a small…

On the west side of Kanazawa Castle is a Oyama Shrine, which was first established in 1599 and was originally located in a different part…