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Via Inn Kanazawa

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Day 17: Snow in Shirakawago

A travel blog entry by apat

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... they had snow chains fitted. I considered that a pretty good sign that my luck was improving. Mr Policeman-San waved Mr Driver-San back onto the highway (buses must not need snow chains?) and we continued on our way.

No sooner had we re-entered the highway than the first patches of white began to appear by the roadside and in the surrounding trees at the side of the road. As it turns out, the first place that we saw snow was on the hills ...

Zen Tempel und Konsum Tempel

A travel blog entry by global.nomads

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... inside and take a seat. Ditching on your bill is no longer possible with these systems. Everywhere on the streets of Japan you will find drinking vending machines. The machine does not only spit out beer cans and coke bottles but also canned coffee, cold or hot. Anything is possible in Japan. The Japanese produce machines, computers and other modern technologies not only for the world market. They themselves also seem to be completely in love with the world of gadgets.
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Castle Town (minus the castle)

A travel blog entry by little-general

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... come into a secret room for worship, and in the event of attack secret doorways and passages were used by the Samurai to defend themselves. Following the Ninja Temple, we headed back to the hotel and went shopping to fill the time until dinner...which was at another izakaya (recommended by someone we met on the street). After another evening of beer and sake, we were all sufficiently merry and went into a shoe store (whoops! 4 pairs of shoes later....) before heading back to the hotel.
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Centre of Japan

A travel blog entry by little-general

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... houses) are shaped due to the heavy snow in winter. The middle prefectures and those located on the northern edge of Japan all receive a lot of snow in the winter despite the lack of elevation and latitude as the dry, cold air sweeps over Siberia then gathers the moisture from the Sea of Japan and then dumps snow all over Japan. These houses are located in the valley and the snow sometimes buries the ground floor of the houses for the ...

Hakusan Super Rindo Forest Road & Shirakawa-go

A travel blog entry by misocutlet

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... my car doesn't have an ETC card reader and a car navigation system, which are essential to take the express way (because of a large discount) and to drive to unfamiliar places. I chose the Mazda car rental dealer and it was 5 minutes' walk from the station. I booked a car for 11:00, but they prepared the car for us just after we had arrived there at 10:15. So we were able to hit the road in five minutes. The first destination was Shirakawa-go, a ...

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