Louise Kelly, Cultural Japan 2020 (Travel 2020)

These are some of my favourite experiences from my travels to Japan in 2020. The grass roofed gassho-zukuri farmhouses in Shirakawa-go with a new dusting of snow in the upper mountains. The walk through the 200 year old cedar trees to the Togakushi shrine and the fire festival to celebrate the rice harvest and the end of New Year celebrations in Madarao.

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