Japan, Day 9 – Part 1: Bus trip to Ainokura & Shirakawa-go

| August 14, 2015 | Japan, Travel | No Comments

The Nohi bus tour to Ainokura and Shirakawa-go was fantastic. I enjoyed my quick washi paper making experience. Our Japanese style lunch was fun, educational, and yummy. And both locations were gorgeous. I would highly recommend this tour.

Wakey! Wakey!

 

Cute little toothpaste tube included with room.

 

Entrance to our inn

 

Going on a bus trip!

 

Essential items: hand fan, hanker-chief for dabbing one’s face, and a umbrella.

 

Kana, our English tour guide.

The infrastructure is impressive.

Ainokura

Beautiful Ainokura

 

Such a lovely place.


  

Making Washi Paper

Clover and sakura blossom decorations.


  

I love how there are gardens and plants everywhere .

 

This one looks fun.


  
  

Japanese Odyssey

Enjoying our bus tour.
Wish we could of spent more time in Ainokura. It was lovely.

 

Shirakawa-go

Lunch stop with view of Shirakawa-go.

 

 

Yes, we ate the entire fish. It was okay until we ate the head. The spine was a bit crunchy.

miso soup

 

Enjoying my Japanese style lunch.

 

Shirakawa-go

Open Air Heritage Museum


  
  

We tried doburoku and kibi. They were interesting…
What an amazing roof.
These scarecrows are precious.
Monkey baby banners. Monkey baby is the lucky character of the area.


  
  


We walked across this bridge to get to Shirakawa-go.

 

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