Fairy Tale Beautiful Snow Country in Japan —— Impression of a One-day Tour in Shirakawa Township, a World Heritage Site

Author/Piaoxue

Winter is a fairy tale world. It must be the snow country. The snow-covered world is as beautiful and clean as a fairy tale. Shirakawa, located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, is such a beautiful place with four distinct seasons.

65438+ came for the second time last February. The first time is summer, full of green and cool, and winter is another scene.

Shirakawa Township is located in Gifu County, between Kanazawa City in Ishikawa County and Gaoshan City in Gifu County. It has a history of more than 300 years. The earliest construction time should be in the Edo and Showa years. At that time, people living here used wood to build a house frame to resist the heat and winter, and the roof crossed their hands with grass. The purpose is to slide down the steep slope with hands crossed when the snow is heavy, so as to reduce the pressure on the house. There used to be more than 300 households, but now about 1 14 households are inhabited.

The whole building did not use a nail, which became an architectural miracle, marveling at the wisdom of the ancients and the exquisiteness of the building.

It takes about an hour to get here by bus for the first time from Gaoshan City. Because of the geographical location, there is no railway in Shirakawa Township, but it is very convenient to get here from Gaoshan City and Kanazawa.

This time we came with a group from Kanazawa. I originally made an appointment to rent a car online, but the weather suddenly changed and the snow slipped. To be safe, I canceled my car rental reservation and took a one-day tour.

Depart from Kanazawa Station at 8: 30 in the morning on time, because everyone wore masks during the epidemic. The tour guide is a middle-aged man in his fifties, gentle and polite. From the time he got on the bus, he began to introduce the arrival time, rest time on the way and matters needing attention in Shirakawa Township.

As the bus runs on the snowy road, the tour guide talks in the warm car. According to the tour guide, we are very lucky. If it hadn't snowed so heavily three days ago, it would have hardly snowed the year before and last year. Many tourists were disappointed to see the snow, but we were lucky to encounter heavy snow along the coast of the Sea of Japan.

There was not much traffic on the road, so we stopped at the rest stop 15 minutes. Everyone got out of the car, went to the bathroom to buy a cup of coffee and moved on. When getting off the bus, the tour guide sets the departure time, and there is a hard paper similar to a calendar at the door to write the departure time. Everyone returns to the bus five minutes before departure.

I feel that the Japanese tour group is very worry-free, and there is no need to organize discipline and deliberately emphasize time. Obeying the rules has become an established rule.

After an hour and a half, we arrived safely in Shirakawa Township, stopped in front of a big store, and 12 returned here for lunch. In the meantime, if we want to go to the Observatory, we can take a bus here. When we first came to Germany, we walked up and enjoyed the roadside scenery while walking. The weather is cool and pleasant.

But this time, due to the limited time for walking in it is hard to go on a snowy day, the tour guide suggested that we take CMB. Usually, Japanese tour guides tell everyone that it must be the safest and most convenient way, and no one doubts it. There is still half an hour before the departure time. Let's take a walk first.

The buildings crossing the street are covered with snow, and both sides of the overpass have been covered with thick snow. Although the roads have been cleared, many shops are still covered with heavy snow. Some shops are busy clearing the snow in front of their doors, while others are busy opening stores. Because foreigners can't get in because of the epidemic, it's much quieter here. We are the only tour group walking on the road, and we have only a limited time to go before returning to CMB station.

If the car can't get in, get off and walk for 2 minutes to the commanding heights of Xiang Xue. The gloomy sky suddenly opened a corner to reveal the blue sky and turned into dazzling white when it snowed.

The tour guide said that if you want to visit, you just need to go to Hotan's house, because the interior is the same. You visited Germany for the first time, but you didn't go in this time. You can use the rare time to find the classic scenery you missed when you first arrived: three buildings with your hands folded side by side. According to the tour guide, people who come here with the group have little time to go there. After all, it's a little far, and you'll come to an end along this road.

After going down the mountain by car, I began to roam in Shirakawa Township. There are 1 13 personally built buildings, such as important cultural property buildings designated by the state, such as Tianjia and Shentianjia. From 1967, the Japanese government began to pay attention to the important cultural value of these buildings, began to protect them, and moved the buildings scattered all over Japan by hand, forming villages built by hand. 1995 12, UNESCO designated the Wushanhe Zhang tribe in Baichuan Township and Toyama City as world cultural heritage.

Once every 40 years, withered grass in the palm is replaced by new grass. Qi Xin, a resident who lives here, works together to protect the buildings here. Because it is made of wood and hay, open fire is forbidden here, and fire prevention training is held every year. Carefully protect cultural heritage.

Wandering in the snowy countryside, the crystal clear snow world makes people feel pure, as if they had returned to a happy childhood. I was born and raised in Northeast China, and I am no stranger or novel to snow. What is fresh is the architecture and culture in the snow here.

Stop-and-go, watching people removing snow on the roof, watching the snow scene along the way, lamenting the changeable weather in the Sea of Japan. The snow on the roadside is more than one meter thick. This kind of snow can be cleared and exposed to the road in a short time. You can imagine how hard the few residents here have made.

I think, when we go to school, every time after the heavy snow, we will stop classes and remove snow under the guidance of the teacher. The happy scene of shoveling snow in full swing is still a landscape printed in our minds. The joy of shoveling a snowman is beyond the reach of an inexperienced human body.

Finally, we reached a section of the road, inaccessible, and the mountains were closed by heavy snow. Three neatly stacked buildings stand side by side in the snow, silently guarded by pine trees, which makes people feel quiet and worried about breaking the peace here.

Still worrying about how to get into the snow and take a complete picture of three people crossing their hands, I found someone wading out of a snowy road that can take pictures. Although the snow is deep, it has become a safe path after all.

Standing in the middle of the snow, the endless world of snow seems to have stopped flowing, only the sound of taking pictures and our joy are quiet.

Go back to the restaurant at the appointed time, and the guide is already waiting for us there. When we sat down at the table, the waiter had served all the dishes intimately. We ate hot meals and alpine beef in cold weather and felt a sense of happiness.

In Japan, you are the favorite person to join a group. All the troubles were solved by the tour guide. You just need to get on the bus, sleep, get off the bus and take pictures, and the rest can be done by the tour guide with one click.

This snowy country is quiet and beautiful. If the lighting ceremony was not cancelled because of the epidemic, I really want to do it again and see the independent orange light world in the snow, which is as beautiful as a fairy tale.