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Cycling in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu Prefecture by Visit Japan Now & 郡上市観光連盟【Gujo Tourism Federation】
Nothing like a therapeutic cycling through the small towns, ancient shrines, shimmering waterfalls and crystal clear rivers.
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Morning run @Gifu-city sightseeing area
03/11/2019
A glimpse of life in a small town along the Nagara River in Gifu Prefecture.
Photo by Sawabe Katsuhito.
Cormorant Fishing in the Nagara River 鵜飼
For the second time, I attended the cormorant fishing viewing in the Nagara River. It was organized by the Tourism and Convention Division of Gifu City. During this event, the spectators were foreign students from Gifu University and Nagoya University.
This time around I enjoyed it because I wore my casual clothes and everybody on the boat is mostly foreigners except for the cormorant fishing staff. This gave a little bit of freedom to talk and do what we wanted to do.
Well you see last time, I wore my country's national clothes. I had to act like a lady because I was wearing a dress. We also had to talk and interact with the members of the organization who organized that event. So I didn't really get to sit back and relax. Although the food during that time was a lot and the view of the cormorant fishing was really near.
During this time, we were also given goodies to take home so I was really pleased.
I feel so lucky to have experienced this twice for free. Some of my Japanese friends said cormorant fishing viewing is a bit expensive and some of them have not experienced watching it, yet.
Oh, something embarrassing happened to me on the way to this place. I was in the bus with two of my friends but none of us really knew the exact bus stop on where to get off. Although I've been there once, I didn't really tried to memorize it because I didn't think I would go back to that place again. But I do recognize the statue of a cormorant master holding the cormorant. And I remembered the fare was 240 yen.
So when I saw the statue, I pressed the bus button and the driver suddenly came to a halt. You see, the statue's distance from the bus stop was so near that the driver had to suddenly make a stop or else he would have passed that certain bus stop and we'll have no choice but to get off on the next one. Coming to a sudden stop was a bit dangerous so the driver in a way reprimanded the person who pushed the button, which was me, through his sort of bus microphone. He said something like it was dangerous and that next time the button should be pushed way ahead before getting off the desired destination. All the passengers heard it but nobody knew to whom it was addressed because everyone was sitting on the chair. Eventually I stood up and I apologized to the driver on the way out. When I got off the bus, I felt like I was so red I had my back turned back to the bus while waiting for my two friends to get off which took so long because they still had to change their money. The funny thing was that my two friends were too oblivious of what happened. They were completely clueless! And when I asked them if they heard what the bus driver said, they thought the driver was telling us to be careful in crossing the street because it was dangerous. Thinking of it now, it makes me laugh so hard.
