Imayo Tsukasa Sake Brewery, Niigata
Taking a tour and sampling Junmai sake.
Imayo Tsukasa Sake Brewery, Niigata
Sado Gold Mine, Niigata
Sado Gold Mine, Niigata
Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservatory
Making fresh soba for our lunch.
Proud soba makers displaying the cut noodles are Nakamoto's and the Grace's.
Group shot on the hydro-foil boat ride.
Hydro-foil boat ride to Sado island.
Kaiseki dinner dress-up!
Our first kaiseki dinner.
Kaiseki dinner menu.
Oni Daiko (Demon Drums) performance
Biyunoyado dinner
Biyunoyado breakfast
Dinner group shot
Dinner group shot
Snow monkeys
Zenkōji Buddhist Temple, Nagano, Japan
Jigokudani Monkey Park
Takayama Hotel meal
Takayama Hotel meal
Dave and Paula are sitting on a Wasabi statue.
Wasabi farm
Takayama cherry blossoms
Grilled Hida beef lunch
Grilled Hida beef lunch
Grilled Hida beef lunch
Takayama Autumn Festival
Parade of yatai or floats
Dinner
Shirakawago, the UNESCO World Heritage site of farmhouses.
Farm houses with steep thatched roofs.
Shirakawago
We went to the Kenrokuen Gardens in Kanazawa, one of the three top gardens in Japan.
Group shot at Kenrokuen Gardens, Kanazawa, Japan.
We enjoyed the stroll through the garden and the beautiful cherry blossoms and manicured pine trees.
We are staying at the Hotel Grandia Hosen in the city of Awara, in the middle of the countryside.
The hotel is beautiful and recently renovated. The rooms are nice and the meals excellent.
Hotel Grandia Hosen meal.
Enjoying our meal!
We entered Kyoto Prefecture and went up a cable car to view Amanohashidate, one of the top 3 scenic locations in Japan.
We stayed at a hotel overlooking the bay and Amanohashidate. The best feature of the hotel is the free beer before 5 pm, free alcohol during the buffet dinner and free sake after dinner.
The view was beautiful and you had to look from between your legs to see the dragon shape made by the isthmus.
We visited the Tottori Sand Dunes and the had a terrific lunch.
Lunch after the sand dunes.
The scheduled meals have been excellent and we have received many positive comments.
The lunch spread.
We traveled to Hiroshima yesterday for our final stop. We had another excellent teishoku set for lunch and then visited the Kintaikyo Bridge.
Enjoying our meal!
Teishoku set!
Kintaikyo Bridge