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Six days, four ryokan, one rental car through the Japan Alps
Four ryokan across the Japan Alps in six days — from a 400-year-old Takayama merchant house to a Nagano property with twelve rooms and one seating. The rental car is essential.
Japan Alps (Takayama, Hida, Nagano), Japan 6 days 10 min read
The story
Yuki maps a six-day ryokan itinerary through the Japan Alps in the shoulder of autumn (mid-October, before the Kyoto tourist bus arrives). She stays at four properties by name — one in Takayama, two in Hida-Furukawa, one in Nagano — and describes each in the compressed style her readers know: two paragraphs, three photos, one line about the kaiseki. The rental car is essential (Toyota Corolla from Toyota Rent-A-Car Nagoya). Includes the small pottery kiln where her partner filled the boot with ceramics, and the Takayama morning market she stops at every trip.