Perhaps travelling in the cold weather the last few days had taken its toll, I started to feel some symptoms of a cold (pun intended). After breakfast, I took a good soak in the indoor bath to warm up, and […]

Shirakawago continued… We bid farewell to guesthouse Bunroku after breakfast, and had until noon to explore Shirakawago. We didn’t walk around much the previous day apart from the trek to the observation deck. There was a thick cover of snow, […]

Due to the slight mishap yesterday, we ended up with a bit of extra time to spend in Kanazawa, before our bus around 1 pm to Shirakawago. At a leisurely pace we had breakfast and then checked out from the […]

Kanazawa City (金沢市) To maximise the amount of sight-seeing time (and to save on expensive train fare), we took an overnight bus from Tokyo, reaching Kanazawa city just before 8 am. This is the second time we took overnight bus […]