Japan Log : Day 8

Although comfortable, the night was rather cold as the gas heater automatically turned itself off during the night, the thermometer indicated 11 Celsius degrees when I woke up. I did slept well though, I don't mind cold weather at all; 11°C is enough to make me realized it's slightly cold. I took things easy on that morning as my next destination was not so far (Takayama), so I took my time dressing up and when I was zip my jacket, I see on the mirror some kind of huge insect that was on my jacket. Now normally if I were in Canada, I would have had a rather good idea of the insect on first sight; if it's dangerous or not, etc, but now I was in Japan and I had not a freaking idea of what that thing was ! I quickly pushed that thing off me (took two times) and it landed directly in the garbage bin on the opposite side of the room; talk about aiming. On a closer look ,it looked like some sort of cross over between a spider and a grasshopper...

Japan Log : Day 7

After the wonderful night I had in the bus, I was ready for the day at 6h20, when the bus arrived Kanazawa. One of my concern about taking the night bus was that I would be exhausted form the lack of sleep in the bus. This was not of my concern anymore as I passed sleept as much as I would in a regular day; I would highly recommend the night buses of Nohi Bus Co. to everyone. Once in Kanazawa, my goal was Shirakawa-go and I knew there was a bus line that connected the two cities, but I also knew it was on reservation only, which I didn't had, so I instead headed toward Takayama and take a reservation free bus over there. This plan turned out great since I would have arrived a little bit too early in Shirakawa if I took the bus from Kanazawa.