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Golden week holiday, day 2 (5 May)

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2nd day, I waked up at 3:30, same as yesterday. And left hotel about 4:20 am because we reserved special bus which was leaving at 6:50. We arrived tateyama station about 5:50 and I was very surprised that parking station is full of cars ! This is tateyama to bijo-daira station, full of people at 6:00 am. There are long waiting lane to get the thicket, but we reserved special bus ( e sola bus ) and there are special ticket window so we can easily get ticket by just saying reservation number, etc. This is E SORA bus. Top of the bus is transparent so we can see high-wall snow in the bus. We arrived at murodou station where yuki-no ootani is there at 8:00 am. It is not yuki-no ootani because the gate to yukino ootani is opened at 9:30. The gate to yukino ootani is anounced open at 9:30 but actually opend at 8:30. This is the highest point, amazing. After sightseeing, we went down to the tateyama. E sor

Golden week holiday, day 1 (4 May)

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This spring holiday ( golden week ), we triped to hokuriku region. Our main destination is yuki-no-ootani  and world heritage shirakawa-go . At first day, I waked up at 3:30 am and we left home at 5:30 am. It was in the middle of golden week but we can pass through highway smootly and arrived at kanazawa city, ishikiawa-pref. about 9:30 am. Our first destination was kanazawa 21th art musium  because my wife's friend whose husband is from fukui pref. said this musium is good for children because there are some intersting spot. This musium is beautiful. It is designed by famous architect kazuyo senou. This structure is very unique compared with ordinary, it is circle shape and there are circle walkstreet inside the musium and inside this walkstreet, there are several rooms existed where we can enjoy some exhibitions. I like this musium. After that we moved to kenroku-en (famous garden). Then go to higashi chayamachi.

Takeda Castle

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On April 2, we went to takeda castle . Takeda castle is known as Japanese Machu Pikchu because it is located at the top of the mountain and sometimes coverd with cloud. We first went to Osaka station and changed to highway bus to wadayama. This is hankyu bus highway station. The bus to wadayama started at 8:10 am, costs 3050 yen per an adult. I was amazed because we can use wifi in this bus for free! Arrived at wadayama station and changed to train. This train's door is manually opened. Arrived at takeda station around 11 am. We can see takeda castle above this mountain. We can climb the mountain but it is said very hard so we took bus. Taking off the bus and walked. About 15-20 min. walk, we finnaly arrived at the castle. This castle is recently maintained so it is well reserved. I liked it very much.