Names of Japanese villages. Traditional Japanese village. Mishima Japanese Village: How to Move

It is generally accepted that Japan is the richest country of the victorious high-tech and the whole life of a Japanese person consists of cool gadgets, erotic comics and anime cartoons. I had the opportunity to spend a day in a traditional Japanese house in a remote (by local standards) village 50 km from the city of Osaka. Around rice fields, wooded hills, peasant houses and an electric train that runs every 15 minutes. In such places, life seemed to come to a standstill in the seventies: young people do not want to live in the countryside and move to the city, and the old are gradually dying. Agriculture has long become unprofitable against the backdrop of a rapidly developing science-intensive industry, a couple of decades will pass and what I will talk about later will become the property of history. So, listen and see how ordinary Japanese live in an ordinary village -

The station is located about a kilometer from the house of our friends, where I am heading. As a child, when my grandfather had a garden near Sverdlovsk, I also stomped from the train to the house as a kid. Unless in the Soviet village they did not know what asphalt and sewerage were, but here everything is civil -

For the most part, solid rural houses -

A small, venomous, palm-sized monster called a phalanx was seen -

Pay attention to the fire hatch -

The house of our Japanese acquaintances and an unexpected telescope at the entrance -

Do you know what these carp flags at the entrance mean? In Japan, there is a holiday, Boys' Day, in honor of this, flags are hung in every house where there are boys. The idea is that the carp is strong and knows how to swim against the current, at any cost to achieve its goal -

There are traces on the wall from the recent earthquake -

At the entrance, the Japanese take off their shoes. I remember the stupid habit in Israel, for example, to enter a house from the street without taking off your shoes. And no one cares that there may be children in the house, they crawl on the floor and collect all the dirt and infections on themselves.

The kitchen, which is also the living room -

The unit above the tap is just titanium that heats the water. Nearby, on the left, a rice cooker is a must-have gadget in any Japanese home, as rice is the main ingredient in any Japanese meal.

On the refrigerator, a map of shelters, where to run in case of earthquakes, or floods -

A whole hell of a diagram of how to properly dispose of garbage. For example, if you have a pet, some cat and he died, you cannot go and bury him in the forest. You must call the sanitary service, which will take the lifeless body and dispose of it in order to prevent the spread of infections, and it will cost you 3000 yen (about $ 30), the corresponding picture in the lower right corner -

Schedule, when and what kind of garbage to throw away. For example, you cannot just drag old furniture to the trash can, you have to call the mayor's office and they will come specially and take away the bulky garbage. Also, you can not throw away glass containers every day, but only 1-2 days a week. If you break the rules, you will be fined, and the neighbors will certainly inform you that this gaijin (foreigner) threw glass containers in the paper trash on the wrong day.

Do you know what this ancient gadget is downstairs?

Living room, here they sit on the floor, as you understand -

The whole house is one common space with sliding doors. If you push everything as far as possible, then you find yourself in one large room. But in the evening the house returns to its original three-room state. Pay attention to the children's railway -

In winter, the Japanese are warmed by the kerosene (!) Heater. The temperatures in these places drop to zero degrees and you cannot live without heating, and there is no centralized heat supply -

The attic where rabbits live -

By the way, rabbits are not at all for food, they are family favorites here -

Do you know what this plaque is on the wall? Who will guess?

Traditional bathroom and sad traces of the recent earthquake -

Well, accordingly, the restroom -

Storage room where washing machines and dryers are located -

Also, on the street there is again a kerosene water heater for the shower, and the fuel tank is slightly to the right below -

Little backyard garden -

An electric train runs right next to the house, literally five meters away. But you know what? There is noise, but minimal, in Japan with these things strictly. Nevertheless, in the morning I heard a train rushing through my dream. The locals have long been accustomed to and do not care about this -

An hour later I take one of these trains and leave for Kansai Airport in Osaka, Taiwan is waiting for me -

Well, lunch on the road and on the way -

This is what an average Japanese village looks like. Somewhere people are horrible a little richer, somewhere poorer, this is a kind of average level. You probably imagined Japanese life a little differently, but remember the adage "don't confuse tourism with emigration." For example, in the villages there are many empty houses, whose owners have died and they have no heirs. So they stand abandoned for years and decades, no one needs real estate in such places. Here is a neighboring house, whose owners have long been dead -

Old letters in the mailbox -

Mossy beer bottles

There are a lot of problems here, which the Japanese simply do not like to take outside their society, unlike you and me, who are tired of complaining about our hard life the whole world.

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The country rising sun amazing, everyone will find a corner to their liking, be it modern Tokyo or traditional Kyoto. When all the main tourist routes passed, it's time to go to the Japanese wilderness. This post will focus on the village of Ainokura, a fabulous valley of gingerbread houses.

High green hills have reliably protected the picturesque villages of Shirakawago and Gokayama (the settlement of Ainokura belongs to it) from prying eyes for many centuries. Thanks to the development of road infrastructure and domestic tourism, historical villages, hiding in the remote mountainous areas of Gifu and Toyama prefectures (Honshu island, Japan), became known outside their native land. In 1995, the charming villages were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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About three hours' drive from the popular tourist city of Takayama (Gifu Prefecture), about ten minutes walk up the hill, and you have a view of a small valley. It's so quiet here that you can hear the wind howling and the grass swaying. Tiny rice fields of rich green color, tall pine trees and a whitish haze that covers the village in the late evening - in Ainokura, the eyes rest, the mind clears up, and the body is saturated with oxygen. The air here is so clean that you feel dizzy from habit.

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The farmhouses are built using the traditional gassho-zukuri technique for these areas. "Gassho" literally means "hands folded in prayer" - the two steep slopes of the thatched roof symbolize the palms of the monks.

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Not a single nail was used in the construction of the dwellings. Wood and straw in the hands of the Japanese have become reliable and durable materials: houses have withstood the harsh climate and outlived the great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of their creators.

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In summer it is humid here, in winter there are snowdrifts up to the waist, and the huts are standing and standing for 200 and 300 years.

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In the village of Ainokura there are 23 houses made in the technique of "gassho-zukuri".

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The locals are subsistence farming and eat mainly what they have grown.

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The hostess complained to me that the carrots are tight - they order from the city. But with watermelons everything is in order.

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Eating vegetables from your own garden is simply wonderful, but you can't earn money for the education of children just by a garden. That is why enterprising farmers have converted their houses into museums and cafes, and some even started renting rooms to tourists.

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There are 6 houses in Ainokura, the owners of which are ready to let a stranger stay for the night. Rooms are in great demand - you have to book places in advance, and sometimes a lot in advance (depending on the season).

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A night in a thatched-roof house will cost 8,000-10,000 yen (5,000-7,000 rubles per person) and will give you the opportunity to walk around the village when the last one leaves it tourist bus... The fee includes not only a bed in a separate room, but also two meals a day (dinner and breakfast). The Goyomon house where I stayed is more than three hundred years old, and the descendants of the original owner still live there.

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Inside each traditional hut there is a spacious hall with a square hole in the floor exactly in the middle. This room serves as a living room and dining room - households and their guests sit around the hearth on thin pillows.

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Every day, the residents of Ainokura make a fire at home, grill fish on coals and boil water in a cast-iron kettle suspended from a massive chain.

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A typical dinner here consists of boiled vegetables, pickles, charcoal fish, tempura and river fish sashimi, which must be accompanied by a bowl of rice. All vegetables except carrots are grown here. The fish is caught nearby.

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A light breeze rushes into the open window, and sleeps very sweetly, as once upon a time he slept in his native russian village, where you were also fed food from the garden and told old fairy tales for the night (while completely free).

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Early in the morning a dense fog spreads around the village, and only the yellowish tint of the grass hints that the sun has risen.

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The kettle sways over the embers and breakfast awaits on a small table.

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Having cooked in the capital's cauldron, the children of Ainokura will certainly return here. The purest mountain air, tasty and healthy food, your own home with a long history as a source of income is not a life, but a dream. And I can only hope that the meeting with the fairytale village was not the last.

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Ainokura Village (相倉, English Ainokura)

How to get there (not a short way):

A trip to Ainokura should be combined with a stop at Shirakawago (白川郷, English Shirakawago), the largest historic village in the area

There is a local bus from Shirakawago (40 minutes drive, 1,300 yen one way) to Ainokura (called 相倉口、 Ainokuraguchi) There are two typical routes to Shirakawago from Tokyo that are popular with tourists as they pass through picturesque cities that abound attractions: Kanazawa and Takayama

1) Via Kanazawa (Kanazawa / 金沢）

High-speed train from Tokyo to Kanazawa (about 14,000 yen one way, about 3 hours on the way), from there by Nohi Bus to Shirakawago (1,850 yen one way, a little over 2 hours on the way)

2) Through Takayama (高山）

Bus from Shinjuku to Takayama (6,690 yen one way; 5.5 hours on the way) by Nohi Bus, from there by the same company bus to Shirakawago (2,470 yen one way; 2.5 hours on the way)

Traveling through Takayama is much cheaper, but almost twice as long.

There is also an option to get through Nagoya, in terms of money and time it will be almost the same as through Takayama.

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: After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of the borders, a stream of Russians poured into Japan, both tourists and businessmen ferrying old cars. In just a couple of years, the number of Russians living near port cities east coast increased hundreds of times. In this regard, and to popularize Russian life in 1993, a theme park was opened near Niigata, called the Russian Village, in which a church, hotel, museums, restaurants, a circus and much more were built. The village existed for 10 years, after which the bank financing the project went bankrupt, and with it the village. Currently, the territory is accessible for inspection what has been preserved, in particular the Suzdal Cathedral, the Transsib Museum, stuffed mammoths, books, costumes, postcards, photographs ... There are many different equipment in office premises - from old computers and color copiers to studio audio reproducing equipment ...

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1. The village is located a few kilometers from railroad, so we used to get there by car. Immediately after the parking lot, a copy of the Suzdal Cathedral opens up. ticket offices and an annex hotel building, made in a classic architectural style.

5. The hotel is called small, and three years ago it burned a little, set on fire by some hooligans. As a result, the main tower and most of the rooms on the right wing burned out, in which melted TVs look very colorful.

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13. On the first floor, there were administrative premises with "leaked" audio broadcast racks, computer servers and boxes of various pieces of paper, in particular, licensed software from Microsoft. Discs and serial certificates - everything is in place.

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16. Peter the Great, together with his horse, silently looks at what is happening, and we climb the stairs to the surviving rooms - both the usual suite and the wedding suite. In a regular suite, I had the privilege of spending the night before exploring the village and I can say with complete confidence that the room was more than worthy!

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21. There is a restaurant and a kitchen somewhere nearby, but it is not as interesting as the Suzdal Cathedral. Built and painted in 1993, even after almost 20 years, it has not lost the brightness of its colors.

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28. Outside, the cathedral is no less beautiful, especially when it is sunny.

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31. From the cathedral and the hotel there is a covered gallery to the entertainment part of the park. Inside the gallery there are photographs with views of Russia from Shalyapin's House to Lake Baikal.

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34. The gallery goes to the first floor of the museum, where visitors were invited to get acquainted with the geography of Russia, its nature and climate. Maps on the walls, layouts on tables - they were not spared by time and vandals, but there is still something to see.

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37. Leaving the museum, we find ourselves on a large square, around which there are various buildings - a restaurant, Forest Workshop, Afanasyev Theater, etc.

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41. Desolation reigns in the restaurant, the menu is gathering dust on the floor, delicious sausages have been smoked in the corner for fifteen years.

42. Judging by the text of the menu, the food was good - dumplings, borscht, pies, but the images of the dishes are very strange.

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44. There are no spectators in the theater, they are replaced by a mountain of chairs in front of the stage, and sound equipment looking alone through the eyes of the speakers.

45. And on the second floor there is an office that looks like after a sudden search. Books, floppy disks, photographs are scattered with color copiers, laser printers and monitors.

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48. In the adjacent room, posters and costumes of dubious nationality. Apparently the Russians.

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50. Slightly off to the side, behind the bushes, you can see an amazing mixture of Easter eggs and Orthodox Disneyland, but in fact this is the museum of the Transsib - the longest railway in the world.

51. The Japanese, for all their love for trains, still have a hard time imagining what it means to travel by train for a week. However, this is not surprising, because their Sinskansen would have traveled from Moscow to Vladivostok in just a day and a half, not counting the time of stops.

52. On the walls of the museum there are posters describing all seven days of the journey and the cities encountered, in the center there is a model of the train itself. The locomotive has long been gone, but three carriages have survived, which is called a "cutaway", where you can see the internal structure.

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55. And in order to finally destroy the Japanese confidence in the impossibility of a week-long life in a carriage, in the neighboring rooms there are real compartments, a water boiler and other elements of the car's interior, and not copies, but real ones.

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57. To the side of the Transsib Museum there is a small, empty inside, a circus and another building, much more interesting.

58. Entering it, we immediately stumble upon the skeleton of a mammoth - ribs under the ceiling, a skull in the corner.

59. And behind the wall is a real adult stuffed mammoth, on a scale of 100 percent of the original.

60. And a small (two meters at the withers) mammoth, which you can climb and ride.

61. The last building in the village is a remake - there are devices for throwing balls, as it is written for golf, but too large for him.

62. Zhura-Zhura-Zhuravel!
He flew a hundred lands.
I flew around, I went around
Wings, legs worked.

We asked the crane:
Where is the best land?
He answered, flying by:
There is no better homeland!

The Japanese village of Nagoro is dying. Of course, it has never been a bustling metropolis, but not so long ago there was a factory and workers lived with their families. They made their living amidst amazingly beautiful nature... But the plant closed and the settlement began to empty.

Ayano Tsukimi returned to Nagoro after spending some time in Osaka. When she arrived, the village was already in a sad state. According to the woman, she had nothing much to do, so she decided to create a garden. When the venture failed, she made her first scarecrow, reminiscent of her late father.

He was the first of many, many dolls.

To date, she has made over 350 scarecrows. They all symbolize some of the residents, who have died or left. She dresses them, sews suitable facial expressions for them, and then places them in places that were of special importance to these people.

Some are resting on park benches, and some are sitting in the trees, holding the guns with which they once hunted. Others are fishing by the river with rods. Couples sit holding hands near the houses where they once raised their children.

The buildings of the city are now also inhabited by dolls. The school, closed many years ago, was once filled with students and teachers. Today a scarecrow sits at the teacher's table, at the blackboard covered with lesson materials and assignments.

Dolls are seated at desks: lifeless children hold pencils, look into open books and do their homework. Someone is standing in the corridor, waiting for the class, and the director is watching his charges.

Soon, Tsukimi noticed that her dolls began to attract public interest. People came and took pictures of them - sitting in the fields, tending plants that no longer grew, or watching fish swim in the river.

Three years after Tsukimi started making these little men, she made one for herself. She says that she is not afraid of dying, and knows that if something happens to her, it is unlikely that they will have time to take her to the nearest hospital. But she still cares about her creations.

The dolls in Nagoro are the result of a decade of work. Tsukimi says he will continue to make them despite mixed reactions from visitors. But at the same time, the woman is visited by the thought that someday she will be left alone, surrounded only by scarecrows. Non-blinking men made in memory of the people who once walked the streets.

When I read about the fact that they found something abandoned in Japan, I just can't understand how on such a tiny island where people live, almost like in Russia there is a place for something abandoned? For a long time we even discussed a whole abandoned island with you, I don't know what is happening there now.

Imagine that Japanese photographer Ken Ohki, better known by his pen name Yukison, was traveling around Toyama Prefecture and stumbled upon an eerie collection of human sculptures scattered across the village of Fureai Sekibutsu no Sato. The name of this unusual settlement can be translated as "A village where you can find Buddhist statues."

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“It seemed to me that I had accidentally stumbled upon some forbidden place. Incredible! " - Ken tweeted.

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In fact, he stumbled upon a park that contains about 800 stone statues carved in the likeness of Buddhist deities and close relatives of the founder of the park, Mutsuo Furukawa. He hoped the park would become a popular tourist destination, where people would come to relax. It's a good idea, of course, but over time, the statues have lost their aura of serenity and serenity, and now seem more creepy than soothing.

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