Back To The Past Part 2

This morning, we woke up for breakfast in the hotel and got ready to leave for Kanazawa. Before we left, the lady in charge of the hotel gave us the group picture she took of us when we first got there. I thought this was a really nice gesture. The shuttle brought us to the bus station and we waited for about a half an hour to get on the bus to Shirakawago. We arrived there around 10:45 am and we walked around the folk village there. When we crossed the bridge into the village area, there was a little coffee shop that was open. Mioko, Julia, Day, and I went into the coffee shop, and sat there for about an hour and a half talking. It was fun to watch people walk around and try to see what they were thinking. Eventually, the owner kicked us out and we went back out to the village and looked for something to eat. We ended up eating at a noodle place where we also got ice cream. When we walked back across the bridge, we saw the rest of the group down in the water jumping on the rocks. So Day and I decided to do the same until the bus came to pick us around 1:45 pm.

Lunch (Cold noodles)

Day at the River Below the Bridge

Scenery in the Village

Coffee Cafe

The Bridge to the Village  

The bus to Kanazawa was about 2 hours long and I ended up falling asleep. When we arrived, we were dropped off at the Kanazawa Station and many Kanazawa students were there to meet us. It was nice to see that we weren’t that far from our hotel. When we got to our rooms, the floor was covered in six beds. They opened a conjoining wall to make it one big room for us which I don’t understand because we could have just been three to a room. There was barely any room for our luggage again and there was six of us. After we got settled in, we had free time to explore the city. Julia and I went together and we explored a temple that had a really pretty garden. The garden had a pond with really big coy fish and it freaked me out a little bit because one spit some water into the air. Then we walked to a French restaurant where we had to ask for an English menu. It was an interesting experience because none of the waiters spoke English which is to be expected. In the menus, we saw that a certain kind of pizza was recommended so Julia and I both ordered the pizza and a really nice ice cream sundae. It was really good! Afterwards, we wandered back to our hotel, and relaxed for the rest of the night.

The temple Julia and I visited

Pond beside the temple

My beautiful Sundae