After eating my fill of the freshest seafood it was time to explore more of the natural beauty in Onomichi. I took a rope car to the top of the mountain to visit Senkoji temple, which is actually 25 smaller temples combined to make an entire complex of them.

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After doing the Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka route on my first visit to Japan earlier this year, I wanted to try something a bit more off-the-beaten-path for my second trip to the country. I heard great things here and there about Shirakawa-go, Takayama and Kanazawa and was excited to learn that these three places were all in the same region of Japan,along a well serviced route from both Tokyo and Osaka-Kyoto.