Gokayama - ainokura chapter 童话式雪中小屋の相仓篇

Woke up early in the morning to have my breakfast. Though I didn’t like western food but FREE was always great (´∀｀)

Most of the customer here are working adult. Not sure if I was too sensitive, I noticed a strange look on their faces! If can I also didn’t want to stay here. I liked this hotel and it's really nice just that...I can’t accept the price range. I control my accommodation expenses maximum at 2500 yen. Here was 4000yen per nightΣ(O_O；)Shock！！ 

It was great that the hotel was located less than 5minutes walking distance to the train station as I needed to take the train to reach Johana station at 8.51am to catch the bus at 9am. I can’t afford to miss the 9 o’clock bus since the next bus will be 10:55am!                                                                                            

Majority passengers in the train were the students. I love to look at students’ uniform ^^

 Quite a good looking guy sat opposite me. He was studying English language. I felt like want to talk to him but I knew Japanese writing skill and grammar were really good. Better don't embarrass myself :P Besides, most probably he was preparing for the exam. I guess it was not a good idea to disturb people.

The snowy scene made me felt blue. Perhaps the influence of Korean drama was really significant though I only watched once of the Korean drama. The song I listened to added spices into the gloomy heart.

I love to look at the snowy mountain. Mountain, mountain, mountain, it was so fascinating 

Successfully reached Johana Station. I thought it was a big station/medium size station but it was a small station! From the info, there were a lot of attractions linked to the station. Perhaps I remembered wrongly. I didn’t see any other public transport here.

Arrived at Ainokura very fast. Nobody press the bell! No choice, I had to react and pressed the bell to get off the bus. One guy get off together with me J

     

I needed to follow the signboard to walk into the village. It was pleasant to have a walk but with my heavy and burdensome luggage. It was mentally and physically torturing moment! (P/S: the torturing level was very minima among all my torturing experiences. It was just a little bit more than ordinary level)

OK. I have to say that the locker storage fee was cheap J 

(I hope to have free storage area..I know I know I am greedy)

 

Another thing I have to say was the ticket fares were extremely cheap. At first, I thought I want to save money and didn’t want to spend the ticket to go into the ‘little small museum’. But I saw again another little small museum, fine, just walked in to have a look. Don’t waste my opportunity here. This was the little small museum no.2 

               

                       

 

 

Come. Let's 'climb' up :)

  

                                        

This little small museum successfully made me in great excitement and happiness! WHY??? The things I read in Doraemon appeared in front of my eyes. I thought it was just the creativity of the author. Greatest excitement was when I saw the phone

I wished I recorded all the video here. I like traditional folk song and dance

Difficult in taking picture. When I still trying hard to take photo, a group of obasan came in…arggghhh. More even difficult, I tried to minimize the inconvenience I might bring to people! One of the obasan very nice, she offered to help me! Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu

  

Let’s go to little small museum no.1. The admission ticket for the no.2 was meant for no.1 as well. So conclusion was 200yen tickets for two museum, 100yen each!

     

This model was great to show the people the structure of the house (ｏ´∀｀ｏ)

The model wasn't just to show the structure of the house ☆^(o≧∀≦)oﾆﾊﾟｯ 

 

     

I waited at this small bus hut as the opposite bus stop was really just a bus stop! I needed to stand in such weather for the bus! Furthermore, other tourists also waiting here (then only I knew none of them wanna go further to Gokayama/Shirakawago direction)

I almost missed this bus though I waited here early! If they don't see people, they won't stop Σ(=ﾟωﾟ=;) Luckily got passenger wanted to get off here.

Kanazawa - a sTupId dAy... 冲动笨笨的一天

Early in the morning, Okaasan prepared nice western style breakfast for me :)
I didn't like western style food but hers really different. Taste great!
The strawberry jam recommended by her was really great! I bought two bottles home. My mum loves the strawberry jam too. My mum alone finished all the strawberry jam ^^

Okaasan brought me to the train station after the breakfast  ヾ(´▽｀*;)ゝ" 

The played music when the train came （　´∀｀）

Though I plan to go to Takaoka without further delay but I suddenly changed my mind and went to Kanazawa see see first. The first stupid thing I did was -- LEFT the phone in the washroom Σ(っﾟДﾟ；)っ The phone was very important to me in the last few days in Japan. I didn't do proper research on Kanazawa, so i decided to come to this landmark place - Castle and Kenrokuen ( i didn't go into the garden)!

    

    

Let's go into the castle!

Scene at the entrance door!

Scene in Kanazawa was nice but I was not really interested. I still like Nijo Castle ~ 

I bought the train tickets at ticket shop. It was 20yen cheaper. I did a big mistake -- happily presume the train arrival time. I missed the train and I have to wait for another one hour for next train. I was struggling whether to take rapid train so that I won't waste the time. But it was double the price of the ordinary train! Haih...wait for next train la. 

I thought I will successfully reach Takaoka after 45minutes. BUT unexpected thing was -- I should change train at Tsubata Station!!! After 50minutes then only I realised the train was heading to Awara Onsen direction which was totally different direction!!!!       

Quickly jumped off from the train to wait for the train to go back to Kanazawa direction 

 

I regretted! I should jumped on the train when I reached the Takaoka train station. The train was limited to certain time only. And I can also reach the beach before sunset. Many people commented they don't have the chance to enjoy the beach here. They always can't see the mountains here. But I made a wrong decision, I had the chance but I chose not to  I wasted a day! I wasted the golden chance 

Walked around in the town after back to train station (very upset)...department store also almost closed...frustrated. The department store was the place where I bought my strawberry jam :)

It was scary to visit here at night 

I didn't feel comfortable standing here ~ 

My dinner :) I love udon! I miss udon! This shop was special, they offered combination of udon + soba. I won't spend for soba, I think this combination was good for me to try soba. OK. Conclusion was -- I don't like soba!

Back to hotel to rest! Tomorrow have to wake up very early in the morning!
Start eating again in the room - the precious Kani Sushi 

First time bought such expensive meal  uumm, not so nice...I needed wasabi! Felt sleep half way eating! Woke up and put it into the fridge ~

Ok. NIGHT