Route Inn Grantia Takayama

... building in the centre of the old town, complete with torture chamber, a few free tastings at some sake breweries and a trip to the float museum which stands next to the town's largest shrine and which shows off a rotation of the beautifully detailed floats that are brought our around the town every spring and autumn for one of Japan's most popular festivals.<br><br>We reconvened around 7pm for some more hida beef and then managed to find a great little sake bar ...

... en anglais. Donc, j'ai fait un peu de repassage, refait mes valises et lu un peu. <br><br>Takayama est dans les montagnes. C'est un petit village ou il y a beaucoup d'agriculture et ou les gens travaillent le bois. Ils sont memes reputes pour leur travail. Il y a de tres beaux bols en bois lacques qui coutent, vous vous en doutez, une fortune. C'est une petite ville et tout ferme a 4h30-5h. Et quand je dis tout, j ...

... states) based on the eponymous manga. Jes loved it and I gotta say, I was definitely engrossed myself. (Although we hadn&#8217;t realized it at the time, we&#8217;d seen advertisements for the sequel [it&#8217;s a triology] all throughout Tokyo.) <br><br>08.22.09<br><br>Up early to go to Asa-ichi, the morning markets. Takayama has been doing a morning market since the Edo period (about 200 years). There were ...

... student.....being that we are soooo far behind, this will be - a picture is worth a thousand words...enjoy the pictures. Your students/children are doing great...we have been sleeping Japanese style on the floor for six nights and are anxious to move on to Hiroshima for real beds and bathrooms in our room. We have been taking the Japanese style baths every night!!...<br> Gosh, hard to believe our trip is almost over!!!

... she owns the whole of japan, this going on the " if i like it it's mine, if i see it's mine" principle.<br>i love you sweetheart. we both miss you both. i'm getting some stares here, so i need to go. i'll try to get on computer tonite. have to do laundry too. <br>i'll tell tim about orientation stuff. that was very thoughtful of you. <br>miss you much, you too kate :)<br>love you forever, like you for always<br>mom

A Takayama on loge dans un temple, plutot sympa ! La ville est assez touristique et on comprend pourquoi : elle regorge de temples, vieilles batisses, distilleries de sake. Il y a beaucoup d'artisanat local : bois laque, sculptures, herbes sechees... Les sobas (nouille) au sarasin sont la specialite du coin et on approuve ;-) Toujours impossible d'aller a Kamikochi, meme de ce cote. On declare donc forfait et on part vers le sud...

As the title suggests, I really shouldn't have gone to Kamikochi today. It didn't bode well from the start--I forgot my maps and guides and the driver was particularly worried about me and lack of clothes, as it was SNOWING up in Kamikochi. Which I didn't really appreciate the severity of because from Matsumoto even the tallest hills didn't have any snow on the ground and though Kamikochi is a mile above sea level, it's a valley between two parallelt taller mountain ranges ...

... but no actors and much smaller. That night tried to get dinner somewhere, specifically to find a skewer of Hida beef, which is supposed to be as marbled and delicious as Kobe beef. Unfortunately, the town was basically closed by 6PM, weird especially since it's a day before the festival. We did manage to find a random place to cook up some skewers (they were delicious and beefy and fatty) and had to settle for ramen (or Chinese soba it's ...

... and would later prepare a wonderful dinner and breakfast for us. We strolled around the village, enjoying the different buildings, and in the evening had a soak in the local onsen. We woke up early in the morning to enjoy more of the village, and check out the foggy view over the area. It was a pity to have to leave the place so early! But off we went, to see more of Japan! We bused back to ...

... My mom would want to know what this that and the other is, and wanted to sample this or that, so I have to help her ask the store attendants. Everyone seems very friendly and helpful. I kind of felt bad after a while though because my mom kept sampling things and probably bought half as much. But, at least she bought something from each of the places she sampled from, I think, so it wasn't all for nothing. The tour guide said something about how the ...