Takayama, originally uploaded by julesberry2001.

Maybe the last picktur I'll post from "real Japan", this one is of a restaurant in Takayama that we didn't go to. Instead we had a very memorable meal of prime beef tonkastu*, but I didn't photograph the probably equally good looking restaurant as I was too busy negotiating our entry to the establishment.

*It was a real treat because normal tonkatsu restaurants in our region of Japan don't serve beef, just pork and jumbo shrimp.