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Por los Alpes Japoneses.
... Lo curioso es que los Hombres y las Mujeres tienen sus baños separados y te tienes que bañar como Dios te trajo al mundo, nada de bañadores. Todos juntos como buenos hermanos. El pueblo está bastante bien, conserva unas calles con sus casas tradicionales de madera, con mucho encanto. Algunas de estas casas, son antiguas destilerías de Sake, que todavía funcionan y puedes visitar. Por cierto, hubo que probar la ...
Day 7: Rainy Day in Old Town
... a seat by the gigantic hearth and sipped away. Bon wasn't as fascinated with the brew and just tried a tasty black curry bun and I did plenty fine with just sake alone. Who needs the sun when you got fresh sake....so good. We wandered through the morning markets and museums of Old Town in the discomfort of the rain. Every time we wanted to stop we would discover a food stand with a local speciality. The snacking kept us going but when our toes got soaked and frozen we had ...
Day 6: Takayama - Old Town and Bike Tour
... situation by commenting, "I'm sure this happens all the time. I'm sure other people have wiped out on the tour before". To my fear, Hiso remained silent and politely turned around and smiled and said "no never happen". Wow that did not turn out as planned. Not knowing what else to say I looked at bon and said "at least you're number 1". Time flew by and we were losing sunlight. By 5 o'clock we were back at the office which signalled the end of our fun eye-opening tour. ...
Yosemite of Japan: Kamikochi
Our next destination was Takayama, southwest of Tokyo by a few hours.
We spent our days here in an old guesthouse where the lights went out at 10pm, which meant that we were getting our beauty sleep!
Renting bikes and hiking through the gorgeous Japanese alps was definitely ...
The oldest castle in Japan
We've spent one night in Matsumoto, at a nice little hostel that gave us bikes for free! So we explored Matsumoto, which is not very big and very "bike-friendly", and visited Matsumoto Castle. It is the oldest castle in Japan and one of the four National Treasures of Japan. It is definitely impressive! We went up to the sixth floor on very steep staircases, with a nice Japanese tour ...