Thursday, May 13, 2010

#5 A Trip I Took Recently

I went on a bus tour with my best friend in March. It was a mystery tour, which means we don't know where we will go. So, it was an exciting tour!!
Before we decided which trip to choose, the tourism said in the information, "we will bring you to a World Heritage site, and you can stay in a hotel which has a great hot spring!" Then we decided to go!
Actually it was fun trip, because we can't guess where we're going.

We went Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama prefecture, and visited some tourist spots.
The first & second picture is a traditional style of Japanese architecture. It's called "a Gassho-zukuri house." I liked them because they were cool looking building!











The man on the last picture is coating Japanese(Chinese) lacquer. The lacquer is called "Urushi." He said that he need to paint it again and again to finish making one. So, he paints first, then dries it, and paint it again. It seems tough.
It was interesting to see.










This trip was totally different from the other trips which I've done before. But, it was fun! So, I want to do this kind of trip again.

4 comments:

  1. i wanna try mystery tour. sounds fun. haha.
    i lernd about Gassho-zukuri when i was in U.S.
    they looks soooo cool.
    however, did you take these pictures?
    i like your camera work.

    see ya. xxx

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  2. wow!
    i was kinda interested in mystery trip.
    I was hoping I go to mystery trip someday.

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  3. sounds fun :) I've never been to Fukui, Ishikawa, and Toyama, so I would like to go there someday!

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  4. i want to see that Urushi thing.
    It looks interesting!

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