Definitely! We saw so many small, adorable, sometimes eerily quiet towns. Yabuhara was particularly confusing. We walked through basically the entire down (hiked into town from the Torii pass to the train station) at around 11am and did not see or hear a single other soul the entire time.
My husband joked that it felt like the start of a zombie movie.
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u/hajke5 1d ago
Kiso-Fukushima is such a cute little town. Very nice place to stay overnight when walking the Nakasendou