The best way to drink sake in winter is to heat sake :)

SUGIDAMA "Japanese cedar balls"
　A Sugidama is a sign a sake(rice wine) brewery starts to sell new sake. It is suspended in fall, is initially green , as time passes, become brown.They know how the sake matureed to see its color. The more matures sake , the more rich and lussh the taste becomes.

杉玉
　杉玉は新酒ができたことを告げるもので、秋に吊される当初は緑色だが、徐々に茶色に変化していく。杉玉の色の変化を見て日本酒の熟成具合を知ることが出来る。熟成の進んだ日本酒は濃厚でその甘みを増していく。
　(飛騨古川駅付近)

CAUTION !!!

ELECTRIC WIRE(and rail tracks)
　DANGER.ELECTROCUTION HAZARD. A rail tracks and electric wires are raid under the bridge. Don't touch the wire!
(taken in the area of the Komaruyama-park intersection.)

電車、通ってます
　この した でんき あぶない！
　(小丸山公園交差点付近)

Ise Jingu - 伊勢神宮

伊勢神宮
　伊勢神宮は公式には”伊勢”をつけずに”神宮”と呼ばれる。伊勢神宮は、皇室の祖神である天照大神が奉られている内宮と、農業と産業の神である豊受大御神が奉られている外宮からなる。

Ise Jingu.
　Jingu is often introduced in the dictionary as "Ise Jingu." However, the official name is "Jingu" without "Ise." Jingu is principally composed of the Naiku where Amaterasu Omikami, the ancestral kami of the Imperial Family, is worshiped, and Geku where Toyouke Omikami, the kami of agriculture and industry, is worshiped.

Don't catch a carp!

 Carp are stocked for water quality control. Don't catch them !

Misogi-gawa river

御祓川
　飯尾宗祇の「言の葉も　この輪を越えよ　御祓川」の和歌に由来すると伝えられています。

Misogi-gawa river
　Misogi is a ritual ablution. Misogi of the Keta-hon-guu shrine have been performed in the river.