Week 9: Takayama... Scratch that, Toyama (ft. Eiheiji)
I can't believe I'm saying (writing) this, but here are the details of my last major trips around Japan. The last two weeks have been really busy due to finals, and the next week and a half look to be just as busy, and so I have no other major travel plans planned within the time I have left. More on how crazy it is that I'm almost finished later; the rest of my blog posts will be mostly reflection-based, along with some insight into what exams are like in Japan, so I hope the pictures in this post make up for the lack of pictures to come. The weekend after the Halloween party (November 11th I think, it's a bit hard to tell thanks to my master procrastination skills), I was invited to 高山 (Takayama) along with some friends. Takayama is a picturesque town filled with wooden buildings dating back from the Edo Period in Japan, and it is filled with history in spite of its small size. Or so I've heard, because the morning of our trip, it was pouring rain, and the
