Yarimikan
Travel Blogs from Takayama
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
... to take a walk around the rest of Old Town in the rain. Hopefully that'll turn away some of the tourists and make the streets quieter and limit he amount of photo bombing. To liven up my spirit, we hit the sake breweries of Old Town. We watched as the sake master worked his magic. Luckily the brewery had intelligently placed barriers around the barrel of sake cause i would have dunked my head in there and drank it dry...or at least try to. We weren't totally sure what ...
Day 6: Takayama - Old Town and Bike Tour
... office to change our tour and hopped on the first train to Hida Furakawa. All the positive reviews we read made this one of the most anticipated activities in our itinerary so we definitely did not want to miss it. The maze of green rice fields, snow-capped mountain range and peaceful town of Hida did not disappoint and made for a majestic backdrop to a 3.5 hour bike ride. Even our tour guide Hiso was amazed with the clarity of the skies. Everything was perfect. I would ...
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 ...
Temples, Markets and Food Sampling
... somewhere as expensive as Japan, being able to get a full free meal each day out of it is truly amazing!
There were stalls selling tasty rice balls on sticks. And stalls selling all sorts of other food I’d not before tried. The excited man in the photo sold me square marshmallows.
And then there was the friendly lady who alternated having licks of her ice cream with her ...