Day 6- Takayama

Curry Katsu

Takayama is famous for its beef called the Hida Beef

Streets of Takayama

Sake Brewery

Mitarashi Dango (Sweet Rice dumping on skewer)

Yamakyu Inn, this is our accomodations for the night. The accomodations include 2 meals and hot bath.

Our 6 tatami mat room, not luxurious but definately a traditional experience.

Our rooms from the outside

Takayama is famous for its Sake, and after visiting several brewery and sake tasting we decide that this was really good. Since, we will be staying at our rokyokan most of time it will be good to just relax over sake. (1350yen)

Althought, we had a really small room, but look at our views! I only wish that it had been snowing. Apparently it started snowing 2 days after we left Takayama!

We counted and we had 13 dishes!

Eel! Yummy!

While we were having dinner, they were busy setting our room for us to rest.

Grill Miso Paste for breakfast! Never had it before and its taste really good with white rice.

Breakfast in the common room

The whole experience of visiting this place and staying a night at the royaoan is truly enjoyable. The royokan was a small family run business and the service is truly good. The food was delicious and hot bath was cosy. We really love this place and hope that we will one day be able to come back again.

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Day 5- Kyoto / Hiroshima/ Miyajima Island

We are leaving for Hiroshima!

Bullet train! Fast, smooth, clean and always on time!

Arrival at JR Miyajima Train Station, and to get to Miyajima Island we have to wait for a ferry transfer. As we were holding to JR passess, this ferry is free!

Miyajima is most famous for its "Itsukushima Jinga Shrine", the large wooden Torii gates rise 53 feet out of water.

This is the view from the ferry, it looks amazing right?

On the island, you get to see deer roaming around and they are not shy animals. Small quiet and dainty town which i suppose not much activity goes on except from arriving tourist visiting the shrine.

Itsukushima Jinga Shrine (300yen)

Lunch Time! Its pretty funny, we didn't speak japanese hence we just started pointing to the pictures on the display window to get what we wanted. When at Miyajima, do try their oyster and boiled eel. They are popular here.

Didn't get a photo of the oyster rice cause we were so hungry we forgot! But here's the boiled eel rice.
This Dome was what was left after the atomic bomb was drop and it is the only surviving building to reflect the devastation of the destruction. One can really imagine the impact of the bomb, all else were destroyed.


Do visit the Peace Memorial Muesum and the park, it really show case the effects of the bombing and how destructive it is. The fee is just 50yen to visit the Muesum, it is probably going to be the most inexpensive entrance fee that you will pay in Japan. This is one of our main highlight, and a must for all visitor going to Hiroshima.

Hiroshima is pretty much a shopping haven too, with rows and rows of shops it seems to be endless. Before we leave Hiroshima, we had to try their famous Okonomiyaki!