A REAL Japanese Garden

One of the cool things about this trip is that we got to peek into more traditional daily life for regular people (little bitty peeks, but peeks nonetheless). A lot of times, we tour around and look at castles and palaces and the lives of the wealthy without ever seeing the real everyday stuff. We ended up going for quite a long walk on our first day in Takayama, and saw this woman working in her garden. So neatly organized! We saw quite a lot of gardens like this.