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With its vast number of cultural attractions such as Kanazawa Castle, the spectacular Japanese garden Kenroku-en, and many excellent museums, we think Kanazawa is one of Japan’s less discovered jewels. Kanazawa’s neighborhoods range from historic samurai houses to modern high-rises, and you can find everything from cozy Japanese Inn’s to stylish, comfortable hotels.
Michal Polliak
on Climbing The Roof Of Japan – The Ultimate Guide To Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Maria, we owe you many thanks.
Discovered your blog while preparing our trip to Japan. We didn't have much time and we don't like to rush so it was easy...
Ashwin Iyer
on Climbing The Roof Of Japan – The Ultimate Guide To Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Thank you for taking the effort to put this together - my friends and I followed this every step of the way! :)
The only one change (positive one!) when we...
Mehmet
on Climbing The Roof Of Japan – The Ultimate Guide To Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Hello Maria,
We would like to do this for 2 days, where do you suggest we stay overnight. The reason we want to do this for 2 days is to enjoy...
Sachin
on Climbing The Roof Of Japan – The Ultimate Guide To Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Hi Maria,
I tried to book myself the Alpine Tour for the 6th of November. I was told that starting 4th November they do not do full tour from Omachi...
Robyn
on Climbing The Roof Of Japan – The Ultimate Guide To Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Just wanted to thank you for your very detailed and helpful blog. We recently did the Alpine Route and found it was our favourite part of our trip to Japan....
After our Japan Alps journey, we took the train to Kanazawa, a small city on the west coast of Japan. Well, it turned out that it was not as small as we had thought!
Kanazawa has a lot to offer when it comes to cultural attractions, with a castle and a castle garden ranked as one of top three gardens in Japan as well as beautifully preserved Samurai and Geisha districts, temples and museums. This makes Kanazawa the drawcard in the west Hokuriku region of Japan!
The Japan Alps is a fairly big area inland of mid-Japan. This area is packed with high mountain and awesome peaks and wilderness. It surely is a hiker`s delight!
We decided to dig into some of this area, and travel/ hike along the spectacular Tateyama-Kurobe Alpine Route. This is a popular 90 km route, which is open from April to November, and connects Shinano-Omachi with Tateyama. It was an incredible journey through sacred mountains, wilderness, forests, impressive tunnels, high peaks, hot springs and Japan`s highest dam. Plus a ton of fresh mountain air!