Golden Week is a week of public holidays for various celebrations. Japanese workers are reluctant to use the annual leave so this block of public holidays forces offices to close and people can take a break. This also means chaos on the roads and public transport. Thankfully, things here are organised and there is a website you can refer to that tells you about traffic congestion, where it is, how long it will last and the peak times of the day, so handy! We headed to a place we thought might have less tourists, but we were wrong. So we went looking for an odd looking road, the one less travelled, found one and we took it. We found the place pictured above, so beautiful, on the other side of the mountain where we had orginally planned to visit. This was exactly the place we were looking for. We sat by the river and ate lunch and skipped stones into the water and floated leaves. This river has a lot of fireflies in summer, something I had never seen until I came to Japan. We will certainly return in the warmer months to view such an incredible sight.
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