Started
off this morning with a visit from our AIRBNB host to help us get our
laundry sorted. Yesterday we weren't able to get any water filling
into the machine, turns out we were just pushing one button wrong and
we had done AIR laundry, no water. So this morning one load of
laundry was done all over again from yesterday.
We
then head off to do some exploring in town. We walked around old
town again and revisited the market. We had time to kill before our
cooking class began. We met up with our very cute teacher Hannah and
she brought us to a very nice place with a great view of the water
for the class. We were the only 3 in the class which was great. Our
class was on Miso soup and Sushi. It was a lot of fun, and she was a
great teacher. We all did well and definitely did not need lunch
after the class. Hopefully we will put some of these skills to use
when we get home.
After
our cooking class we visited the Takayama float museum hall. They
have floats that are rotated every 4 months. They have a very good
audio recording that you listen to at your own pace. There were 4
floats on display and they were huge. They are paraded through the
streets only once per year. It is a huge event that we are just
missing the fall procession. Our admission to the float museum also
included a museum beside it, it was a lot of miniatures of a shrine in Nikko, we really didn't get all of the details on this place.
Next
off we decided to walk up to see Hida Folk Village which had been on
our list. On the way we could see the huge orange building that we
had seen from our walk up the mountain the other day so tried to get
to that but it was under construction and we couldn't find a way to
visit at all. It was the Sukyo Mahikari World Shrine, a huge
religious site.
We
finally made our way to Hida Folk Village. It is an open air museum
opened in 1971 with about 30 buildings moved from different parts of
the Hida region. It was nice walking around with some very nice
views and learning about some of the traditions from the area.
Made
our way back into town and picked up things for supper and breakfast
tomorrow. We are moving on through Japan one last time tomorrow, a
longer travel day as we make our way by bus back to Tokyo.
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| We thought this small car looked like it was made of lego |
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| Andre says this is Wendy, Jill and Joey |
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| Making Hida Steak skewers |
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| Lots of small shrines on the corners in this city |
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| Steamed buns had a logo imprinted on them |
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| Pedestrian street is busy now that the rain has stopped |
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| Still fun to look at this sake spot with 100 selections |
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| I would not want to try to park my car here. Notice the open spots with no grates! |
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| A poster of all the floats used in the spring/fall parades |
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| Love the spring flowers under this cherry tree |
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| Making Miso soup |
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| Preparing sushi |
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| Final result |
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| Making a triangle sushi roll |
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| Our lovely instructor |
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| Takayama Float Museum, beautiful floats |
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| Beautiful embroidery on the back of this float |
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| Lots of signs on the pavement indicating which way to go |
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| Santa Store? We didn't go check it out |
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| Thinking of Jill, so may daffodils here |
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| Beautiful views of the mountains, you don't see them too much from town, here we are walking quite a bit uphill |
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| Sukyo Mahikari World Shrine |
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| A vegetable patch along the way |
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| Map of Hida Folk Village |
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| Quite a few interactive things to try here, some games etc. Also some props for pictures, like bobo with us here |
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| Period costumes |
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| Notice the stones on top of the shingles, not many nails to be used as they were so expensive |
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| A small shrine in one of the houses |
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| Replica of the house |
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| Inside one of the houses, you had to take your shoes off to enter any of the houses |
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| Bell rang by the monks at 6Am and 6Pm to let villagers know when to start and stop work for the day, very few had clocks |
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| An old sled |
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| Rain gear |
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| Fire pump |
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| One last house that we visited |
