Hida Furukawa & Toyama
One of my last big trips of the summer was to the Japanese Alps in Tateyama Kurobe. Altogether we would be spending three days up north, then heading back down to Tokyo towards the end of our vacation. On the first day of our trip, we took the train out to Hida Furukawa. Hida Furukawa is a small carpentry town a little north of Takayama. Both towns have preserved the look from the Edo period, so it was really interesting…