Location List

The view of the Genkai Sea through the terraced rice paddies is spectacular.

Reconstructed water wheel.

Zenta River The scenery of the path along the river. The road leads from a high place like an embankment, and you can see the countryside with the fields spreading. An atmosphere where encounters...

Nabebuta region, the lower reaches of Kaniegawa River and Nikkogawa River, is a wide rural area not far from central Nagoya.

This building, built in 1942, was used as an elementary (primary) school for 70 years.　A two-story wooden building with an iron plate roof, it is very large for a school and has a characteristic h...

About 60-minute drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway. Built in 807. Located in the village where has the starting point for climbing Mt. Hayachine. The main hall was built in the Keicho e...

opening movie(TV Series "Mare" 2015, NHK)

tv drama series "Mare" (2015,NHK) Aiko(Mare's mother) prayed for her husband's return

educational facility for Landscape planning & horticulture

A large park with a satoyama landscape: rice terraces, fields, reservoirs, ponds, etc. There are several thatched roof houses over 100 years old, as well as what is called a rural stage for perform...

Honjin refers to an officially approved large inn along the main road for the use of daimyos and aristocrats during the Edo period. The great Shoya (village headman) Murakami residence, once appoin...

A rural area in Kobe where you can find thatched roof homes and rice fields. Red spider lilies bloom all over the fields in autumn.

It is built along the sloping land at the foot of Mt. nishihoubun. It is said that a settlement was formed in Yoshishikihata at the end of the Muromachi period. The height difference of the village...

Approximately 25-minute-drive from Hanamaki station on Japan Railway. They still offer mix bathing which is rare nowadays.

Two wooden Kannon statues are enshrined in a cave.

The streetscape of Ohamamachi area

Mino City has the largest amount of preserved Udatsu in Japan.

Gujo Hachiman, a town where the water of the Yoshida river flows through the center and springs flow from it here and there.

It is a natural scenery around Ashinomaki Onsen.

The white walled buildings in Hida Furukawa give beautiful contrast to the adjacent canals filled with silently swimming multicolored carp.

Climb up the winding road to Hattoji Temple to reach its peak where a beautiful rural landscape unfolds. Hattoji Furusato Village is located on a plateau at an altitude of 400 meters. This is an ar...

Farmers’ houses, a mountain castle, a market from the Middle Ages (Sansai-ichi), residences and other structures are reproduced based on historical studies so that visitors can see and experience t...