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Japan Part 4: Shirakawa-go
Getting to the village New Year’s Day! The first day of the year consisted of us making our way up to the picturesque Shirakawa-go village! The Shirakawa-go village, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995, is home to the traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses that you’ve probably seen on postcards. What’s cool about these houses is…
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Japan Part 3: Takayama
Arrival One of the main goals for this trip was to see snow in Japan. Takayama definitely had plenty of that. On average, temperature in late December- early January was: Day: -5 to 5 degrees Celcius Night: -10 to -2 degrees Celcius Disclaimer: Numbers based on a very foggy memory of me checking weather forecasts.…
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Japan Part 2: Getting to Takayama
Getting to Takayama from the Kansai Airport was a huge ordeal for us, mainly because we wanted to save money by using the benefits we get from the Takayama-Hokuriku JR pass. Based on the recommendation we got from a lady at the JR office, we were supposed to follow this pathing: KIX > Shin-Osaka >…