Day 9: Nagoya - 12 Dec 2017

It had snowed heavily the night before.. and when we were about to check out in the morning to head back to Nagoya, it started snowing heavily as well... The boys were equally excited but I was frozen .. (-ve 6 degrees on this day)

dragging our luggages to the bus station

Never seen so much snow in my entire life.. hahaa..

heavy downpour

sadly.. approaching nagoya, there's no sight of snow..

I love Hirayu but to get there, it takes about an hour ride from Takayama station, and an hour back to Takayama station (and the bus tickets cost about S$50 per adult one-way). It will be more worthwhile to make a trip back here, if we were able to time the opening of the ski resorts perfectly.

Our ride from Takayama to Nagoya was very torturing as the express train stopped its service halfway and we had to transfer to a local train (which was long, and no seats). It took us near 6 hours to reach Nagoya, which was supposed to be about 3 hours !

Given the short timing we left in Nagoya - we did very minimal last minute shopping around the station area.

And we found this ramen and dumplings shop near takashimaya at level 13 of Nagoya station which was so good!

Summarizing my favourite shops in this trip:

1) All time no. 1 favourite: Niko and... http://www.nikoand.jp/

2) Rope Picnic http://www.ropepicnic.com/

3) Loft https://www.loft.co.jp/

4) Kitchen Kitchen http://www.kitchen-kitchen.jp/

5) Lush https://jn.lush.com/

6) Muji

7) Studio Clip http://www.studio-clip.jp/

8) Plaza in Kanazawa https://www.plazastyle.com/store/detail/?id=147

Hopefully, I can be back in Japan next year!