{"id":1637,"date":"2015-08-14T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2017-08-21T04:05:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T04:05:34","slug":"japan-day-9-exploring-takayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/japan-day-9-exploring-takayama\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Day 9 – Part 2: Exploring Takayama"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a beautiful day! The bus tour was great. We wanted to stay in Shirakawa-go longer but we also wanted to have time to explore Takayama. If we could do this trip all over again and time didn’t matter I’d spend three nights in Takayama instead of two so we could remain in Shirakawa-go longer and check out a few more sites in Takayama. \"\"<\/a>  
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Karl with the mascot of the snack that shares his name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

  
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Grated apple sherbert is so good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pretty lady!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

  
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We ate dinner in this corner restaurant. We tried the popular local Hida beef. My dish was okay. Karl’s was really good.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A typical shop setup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Japanese convenience stores are so much better than ours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Shoes off at the Ricksaw Inn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We hung out in this lounge area both nights. It was nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Indoor Slippers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Continue Reading: Japan, Day 10: Arrived in Kyoto<\/a>
\nJapan Food Journal: Day 9<\/a>
\nReturn to Index: 20 Days in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a beautiful day! The bus tour was great. We wanted to stay in Shirakawa-go longer but we also wanted to have time to explore Takayama. If we could do this trip all over again and time didn’t matter I’d spend three nights in Takayama instead of two so we could remain in Shirakawa-go longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1681,"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-1637","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_1698.jpg?fit=1616%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-qp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}