Hiratakan Takayama
2-3 Hirayu, Okuhidaonsengo Takayama, Gifu, Chubu, 506-1433 , Japan
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Day 14: Hida Folk Village and the best burger ever
... which wasn't bad. Stuff like ham, pasta salad and garden salad is still a little weird at breakfast, but we're slowly getting used to it. Stuff like pickled mystery foods, and a mummified ball of something-or-other, not so much.
After breakfast, we mentioned to the owner that we were going to spend the morning at Hida No Sato (Hida folk village), and he very kindly offered to drive us in his car. The guy (who ...
Shin-Hotaka Onsen & Ropeway
... Centre and enjoyed a photo exhibition of the North Alps.
Shin-Hotaka Ropeway Brochure
http://www.okuhi.jp/Rop/english.pdf
We couldn't catch the great views of mountains in pictures of the brochure.
It was at almost one in the afternoon, when we left Shin-Hotaka. Although we were heading to Takayama, we had plenty of time to kill in Takayama. To be honest, there seemed no interesting tourist ...
Day 13: Onsen and simmering sashimi in Takayama
... from Fuji, the train trip to Nagoya was dull. The novelty has worn off Shinkansen rides now. A relatively quick train swap at Nagoya station, and it was onto the slow local train up into the mountainous hida region. Admittedly it was a very pretty train trip, but we'd seen it all before on our last Japan trip, and pretty or not, it is still over 2 hours stuck on a train, so we were glad when we finally arrived.
We met up with the hotel ...
Takayama & Hirayu Onsen
I have been to Takayama many times, but this was the first time to visit the city with my mom. We got on a limited express train from Nagoya at quarter to eight in the morning and arrived there at ten. Picking up a map and bus timetables at the TIC of the station, we left for Takayama Jinya, or Historical Government House. That's the most popular tourist attraction of Takayama and I knew of it, but neither my mom nor I had entered it. It was ...



