Japan Shirakawa Town Travel Guide

Shirakawa, Japan is definitely the best place to see the snow scene in winter. The snow here is of high quality, delicate and soft, and does not melt. The amount of snow is very large, covering the roof of the house, which is a perfect fairy tale world. Here, I will share with you a detailed play strategy.

Shirakawa's introduction to Japan's winter is simply a fantasy. Snow and fairy tales always have an inexplicable warm relationship. Shirakawa Township is located at the foot of Baishan Mountain in the northwest of Gifu County. This is a quiet mountain village surrounded by mountains, rice fields and rivers. There are more than 1 10 houses with thatched herringbone roofs, which is particularly dreamy.

Travel guide to shirakawa town.

Fly from Beijing to Nagoya, take a bus all the way, and pick up the car directly at Nagoya Airport. If you want to choose public transportation, you can take the Shinkansen, which is actually very convenient.

Accommodation recommendation

When booking, you can book hotels or homestays in advance, usually private hot spring hotels or run their own businesses. If you want to see the lighting ceremony in February every year, you need to find out when the lights are on, and they will only be on for about ten days in February every year.

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There is basically no need to prepare anything special. Warm clothes are just ordinary down jackets. I bought a lot of warm babies in the local 7 1 1, and they all have excellent fever ability. They are basically wearing a pair of jeans. Although it snows heavily, it's really not very cold. In addition, I suggest that you can bring a facial massager similar to refa. The food there is so salty that my stomach will swell for the next few days.

The whole trip will take about 8 days. Nagoya is a transit, so there is nothing to play. After going to Gifu, you can go to Kyoto and Osaka. Even if you fly back to Nagoya, the Shinkansen takes only half an hour, which is very convenient.

On the first day, I drove directly to Orpheus and stayed at the Hot Spring Hotel. The hotel is relatively large in the local area, with tatami and private soup. The service is very good. It's family-run. Orpheus is a famous hot spring city. All hot spring towns in Japan have different effects. Because of the different composition of hot springs, there will be red soup springs and the like, and the mineral composition is different.

The next day, I took a cable car, which is a local attraction. If I haven't seen the snow-capped mountains, I think the scenery there is very spectacular. Although there are snow-capped mountains in the north, I feel that the suburbs of Japan give people a sense of tranquility. In the evening, I look at the stars while soaking in hot springs. The stars in the sky are really spectacular.

On the third day, I went to the mountains early in the morning and tasted the local beef. The food here is salty and a little heavy for me. There is also a kind of grilled fish with salt (I forget what it's called), which is grilled directly on salt.

In the afternoon, I went to Shirakawa Township. Hezhang Building is a local characteristic building. In fact, many suburbs in Japan have this kind of house design. The village is located in the valley. Villagers have lived here for generations. There is a watchtower high up. You can see the whole village. In the evening, many people from all over the world will gather here to watch. But at night, it will be dark on the mountain. Basically, they have returned to the hotel or left, and there will be no one outside.

That night, I drove directly to Suzuka City. It is estimated that no one will travel there. It's an F 1 racing venue, and I'm staying at a hotel on the other side of the track. In the morning, I went to see racers practicing, and there was a theme amusement park of F 1, and then I went back to Nagoya.

If you want to suggest booking as early as possible, it's still worth a visit. The suburbs and cities in Japan have a completely different feeling. Although Hokkaido has beautiful scenery, there are not so many people going to Hokuriku, which is relatively worth exploring.

Transportation: If you leave Nagoya and take a bus at Nagoya Station, you can get off at Shirakawa Station directly. The round trip is about 7000 yen.

Self-driving: It will be more convenient to rent a car in go on road trip. If you have an international driver's license, you can rent a car in Japan. But it's convenient to remind you that you can't rent a car in Japan with a Chinese mainland driver's license. Last time you went to Japan, you just rubbed my friend's car with your international driver's license. After arriving at the destination, you can pick up the car at the designated pick-up point and drive by car.

Precautions 1. I suggest you book a house in Shirakawa Township 3-4 months in advance. I read it two and a half months in advance, and it's sold out.

2. It's best to live on a high mountain the day before visiting Shirakawa Township. It takes only 1 hour for the bus to go to Gaoshan Shirakawa Township, but it takes 4 hours to go from Nagoya, not to mention the shortened play time. The point is that you may not be able to take the bus.

I bought a three-day ticket for Shenglong Road. The ticket says that you can't make an appointment by phone or online, which means that you can only make an appointment on the spot during your stay in Spring Festival travel rush. Finally, you have to wait for the bus that doesn't need to book a ticket, and then queue up 40 minutes in advance. After all, people can't get on. At that time, booking tickets at Nagoya Station was at 7:40 in the morning. At that time, the through train to Shirakawa Township on the same day and the next day was full, and the train to Gaoshan and then to Gifu Township was also full.