Shirakawa-go Winter Light-Up: How the Reservation System Actually Works
Turning up at Shirakawa-go on a light-up evening without a reservation has been impossible since 2019. Most of the photo-tour packages selling “Shirakawa-go winter light-up” experiences for around ¥40,000 to ¥60,000 a head are quietly priced at four to five times the room rate they include, because the operators hold the lottery-allocated minshuku rooms that … Read more