Bus-bus-in and the big bonger

Today was a leisurely start in our wifi-temple, after a picnic
breakfast in our Japanese style room, we marched off in search of more
temples!

And we found them. Takayama has at least 10 temples that we saw, and
some that we missed due to a slighty dodgy tourist map with a variable
scale.

We saw a puppet theatre where a marrionette drew on a sheet of paper
kind of like a 300 year old c3-po and some clever puppets that climbed
bars and fought with samurai swords.

Every year there is a float festival in April - it's in about a weeks
time so we will skillfully miss it. We did however see several floats
in a museum.

For lunch we had the largest apples you have ever seen.

Then we went to hida folk village to see the old houses that had been
transported here when they flooded a valley nearby to build a dam
(which we think we passed on the way here) - bus-bus-in was what the
nice lady said to us when we bought the tickets!

Later we saw a gigantic gong outside one of the temples - kay
proclaimed it 'there is the big bonger'

This evening was also marked by a repeat trip to our 'favorite' eatery
the only one that had nice pictures outside, and an opportunity to
loose £10 in a pachinko parlour! - some lucky (or highly skilled)
locals demonstrated that in exchange for your tenner you can extract
about half a ton of ball bearings from the machines, which one hopes
can be exchanged for hard cash - we however must have picked one that
was out of balls or were clearly less skilled at turning the boring
knob that controlled the machine and plain lost our money in about 3
minutes!

The alternative is that the bloke we saw with all the balls makes them
at home and brings them with him.

Kay managed to stop me putting tomorrows train fare in the machine so
we can head for koyasan tomorrow!