TAKAYAMA!!!

After spending two solid days in Nagoya city, we took a 3 hours bus ride to Norikura Youth Friendship Center a.k.a Aichi Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Takayama. We were dumbfounded when we saw that beautiful city through the blurry mirrors of the bus. Trees and buildings were all covered with thick white snow. Almost all the people on the streets were carrying their respective umbrellas, shielding themselves from the little pieces of snow constantly falling from the sky above. Such beautiful scenery were never forgettable. After alighting from the bus, we walked to Takayama Shishi Kaikan (Lion Dance Ceremony Exhibition Hall) through the morning markets, the old houses and the Naka red bridge. It was snowing heavily that we reached our destination cold and wet, but it was very worth while (took quite a number of beautiful pictures). Some of the "Rich" girls bought themselves umbrellas. -.-"

He's Christopher Moore. Wonder if he has bear skin or what. It was less than 0 degree celcius and he was merely wearing short pants and short sleeve shirt playing snow with us. -.-"

National Norikura Youth Friendship Center!!! The place where we stayed in Takayama.

Takayama Shishi Kaikan- Lion Dance Ceremony Exhibition Hall. Let's take a look at what's inside the hall..

This dummy did some gymnastic stuns by itself.

This dummy will move forward if you put a cup on its hands..

These are meant for Japanese opera.. Performed by dummies too..

Calligraphy dummy..

This is a Japanese shrine I think..

Outside the exhibition hall.. It's snowing!!!


Streets of Japan.

Group pic!!!

Me and Mr. Tan Chin Hao from Kelantan. I looked wet.

Another group pic!!! The B***h I hate most was right beside me. Eeew..

Another pic with the B***h. Anyone know how to edit pics please let me know..

Walking through the snowy and freezing streets of Takayama, we headed straight to our next destination, the Takayama Jinya- Historical Government House without bothering our fatigues. Having the thoughts of us being warm and comfortable in the Takayama Jinya, we fasten our footsteps. We were disappointed when we found out that the Historical Government House is.. OPEN AIR??? I did not take any pictures of the house because of two reasons. The main reason is because there's nothing much to see in the Historical Government House. Secondly, the weather is too cold. Nobody took pictures anyway. Then, we headed off to somewhere more beautiful, which is the Folk Village - Hida no Sato. The scenery was extremely, extraordinary, enormously beautiful, I felt as though I was caught in a world of fairy tales. Unfortunately, we weren't given enough time to take pictures as we were there to learn how to make a kind of Japanese handicraft called the monkey charm. But who cares. We still took a lot of gorgeous pictures. Enjoy..

Hida no Sato - Folk Village

Everyone was trying hard to make a perfect monkey charm

I was completely lost..