Takayama - surely the prettiest town in Japan?
June 6th 2013 I first went to Takayama in 1999 I think on my first trip to Japan with Intrepid. It is picture postcard perfect for a tourist town in all its mini-Kyoto historical houses etc. It was definitely worth visiting again as a stopover on the way to the shinkansen mayhem which awaits me no doubt on the southern coast.
The minshuku (guesthouse) I had chosen was close enough to the station that I could
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