Tojimbo, Kenrokuen Garden 兼六园 & Shirakawa village

and so we visited more UNESCO sites during the trip. the temperature started dipping the further we got away from OSAKA.. esp. when we were @ Tojimbo (Awara area) which is essentially an area where you got to see spectacular cliff shaped by waves over the years. but nope, this aint under UNESCO. though such natural wonders can only be viewed in Norway & Korea other than here at Tojimbo.

mummy_+me freezing our ears off in the wind!

Tojimbo cliffs

Kenrokuen garden is one of the top 3 gardens in Japan to visit. it's massive, used to belong to one of the feudal lords in the past. we spent some lovely time in this picturesque place, adorned by many pretty flowers (though i know none of them..lol).


one of my fav. place for the trip got to be shirakawa village! its a very quaint village whereby you feel you are back in time. look like a scene out of anderson tales! :)
but its like freaking cold there for we can still see lotsa snow around...!

i love the atap-style huts there!


and there is this lucky mascot for this place @ Hida (where the village is) which is called Sarubobo which is lucky monkey if loosely translated. but the thingy looks nothing like a monkey and it has no facial features! weird, if you ask me. still, i took a pic with one of it below.

the one im holding is Sarubobo!

okie the lil'one is asleep! going out to look for hubbi for some couch-potato time. :)