{"id":1664,"date":"2011-02-02T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2011-02-02T22:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:54:55","slug":"trip-report-shirakawa-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/02\/trip-report-shirakawa-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip report: Shirakawa-go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over Christmas, I went to the village of Shirakawa-go (a.k.a. Hinamizawa) with some people I met on the internet. Not having brought any reference material, I didn’t get the angles quite right, but there’s still enough material to do the traditional anime pilgrimage post.<\/p>\n

The scene from the Ogi-machi viewpoint:<\/p>\n

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And the trail up to it:<\/p>\n

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I looked for the bus stop and picnic spot up on the mountain, but under the foot-plus of snow it was a bit hard to see anything.<\/p>\n

The Shirakawa Hachiman shrine seemed to be closed up at the moment:<\/p>\n

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The ema<\/a> board and offering box were still out; despite the apparent emptiness of the shrine, the board was full four layers deep of ema, and every single one of them seemed to have been left by passing otaku:<\/p>\n

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More starting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Furude house (actually just some guy’s shed) and the clinic:<\/p>\n

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The village itself, having been named a UNESCO World Heritage site due to its many traditional houses, has mostly turned into a tourist trap, with many of the homes turned into gift shops or bed and breakfasts, and many of the residents being elderly and retired (not unusual<\/a> for Japan). I also wonder how they manage to walk in the winter, as I slipped and fell down about eight times in 24 hours. <\/p>\n

If you’d like to see what it looks like when not covered in snow, here<\/a> and here<\/a> have some more reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over Christmas, I went to the village of Shirakawa-go (a.k.a. Hinamizawa) with some people I met on the internet. Not having brought any reference material, I didn’t get the angles quite right, but there’s still enough material to do the traditional anime pilgrimage post. The scene from the Ogi-machi viewpoint: And the trail up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2chan.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}