{"id":1578,"date":"2015-08-14T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2016-10-07T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T01:21:27","slug":"japan-day-9-bus-trip-to-ainokura-shirakawa-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/japan-day-9-bus-trip-to-ainokura-shirakawa-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Day 9 – Part 1: Bus trip to Ainokura & Shirakawa-go"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Wakey! Wakey!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cute little toothpaste tube included with room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Entrance to our inn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Going on a bus trip!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Essential items: hand fan, hanker-chief for dabbing one’s face, and a umbrella.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kana, our English tour guide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The infrastructure is impressive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ainokura<\/h3>\n
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Beautiful Ainokura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Such a lovely place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Making Washi Paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Clover and sakura blossom decorations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I love how there are gardens and plants everywhere .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This one looks fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Japanese Odyssey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Enjoying our bus tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wish we could of spent more time in Ainokura. It was lovely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Shirakawa-go<\/h3>\n

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Lunch stop with view of Shirakawa-go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yes, we ate the entire fish. It was okay until we ate the head. The spine was a bit crunchy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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miso soup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Enjoying my Japanese style lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Shirakawa-go<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Open Air Heritage Museum<\/h4>\n

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We tried doburoku and kibi. They were interesting…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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What an amazing roof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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These scarecrows are precious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Monkey baby banners. Monkey baby is the lucky character of the area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We walked across this bridge to get to Shirakawa-go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Continue Reading: Japan, Day 9 (Part 2): Exploring Takayama<\/a>
\nReturn to Index: 20 Days in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.           Ainokura   \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0   \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0   Shirakawa-go       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1595.jpg?fit=1080%2C1616&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}