宿坊 高山善光寺｜TEMPLE HOTEL TAKAYAMA ZENKO-JI — Hotel in Takayama

Was around the globe with my hub and only find time to write this now :P||The resident monk Kaiji-san is very good in English and was able to provide clear and wonderful information about Buddhism, meditation and the temple. The temple rooms are very clean and puts you in a contemplative mood to relax in. The bathrooms are all clean and modern. There is plenty of space in the room and it is impossible to feel claustrophobic.||You can also have time to yourself at the public section of the spacious main hall in the evenings to find "inner peace" if you wish to be outside your room. ||There is also this verrry cute instagram worthy "cafe-house" breakfast place that sells omelette and sandwiches just across the street from the front facade of the temple where you can dine in and stack the small town experience. ||The 10 mins walk from the train station to the temple is along the not-very-busy well-tarmacked main roads so lugging your suitcases is not a problem.||The temple is a pleasant and safe 10 mins walk on the quaint and quiet neighbourhood street along a not too busy road to bring you to the old town in where you find coffee places, soba inns, quaint local produces and a lovely river with a morning market to spend time in. ||Just a stone throw behind the temple and housed within a petrol station is the 24hours 7-11 convenience store for what you need (or wish to buy) and for cute Japanese snacks to try. There is also a local hospital is nearby for emergencies.||Excellent place to stay for a quiet rest at night and a lovely lively town to visit in the day! Highly recommend to stay...

Was around the globe with my hub and only find time to write this now :P||The resident monk Kaiji-san is very good in English and was able to provide clear and wonderful information about Buddhism, meditation and the temple. The temple rooms are very clean and puts you in a contemplative mood to relax in. The bathrooms are all clean and modern. There is plenty of space in the room and it is impossible to feel claustrophobic.||You can also have time to yourself at the public section of the spacious main hall in the evenings to find "inner peace" if you wish to be outside your room. ||There is also this verrry cute instagram worthy "cafe-house" breakfast place that sells omelette and sandwiches just across the street from the front facade of the temple where you can dine in and stack the small town experience. ||The 10 mins walk from the train station to the temple is along the not-very-busy well-tarmacked main roads so lugging your suitcases is not a problem.||The temple is a pleasant and safe 10 mins walk on the quaint and quiet neighbourhood street along a not too busy road to bring you to the old town in where you find coffee places, soba inns, quaint local produces and a lovely river with a morning market to spend time in. ||Just a stone throw behind the temple and housed within a petrol station is the 24hours 7-11 convenience store for what you need (or wish to buy) and for cute Japanese snacks to try. There is also a local hospital is nearby for emergencies.||Excellent place to stay for a quiet rest at night and a lovely lively town to visit in the day! Highly recommend to stay...

It is 6 am, June 24th, and I’ve been awake for a while... the light streaming through the paper walls, the cars wizzing by at what feels like break neck speed, even if I know that they don’t drive that fast, and I’m looking at my room and trying to remember the geisha and samurai movies I used to love. |This place is beautiful, the beds are comfortable and like everything here in Japan, very, very clean but I was dreaming of the garden views that I saw in the pictures, maybe a relaxing morning in bed and that is not to be. I sit here writing wondering how early I can get out there to explore, maybe do some shopping for those kimono bracelets I saw on Main Street, but things don’t open until 10!,, My bathroom turn does not come until 9 to 10 and so that might pospone my plans a bit..oh well ..|I do like the place but it did not live up to the pictures or maybe it was just my Moon room, the one that is the facing the street the loud and just not what I hoped for room!!!! if you come here , and I do recommend you do, bring eye masks and ear plugs and ask for the garden room. The employees are very friendly but English is not their strong suit, nor it should be as we are guests in their counties, as I said before it is extremely clean but would I come again??? Perhaps not, specially on the famous festival times!!! Where the streets would be a lot louder! |But now I can saucy I did ti, check it off the bucket list and move on to the next place,a Ryokan let’s see what...