the big door allows for the floats to get in and out a few times a year
we learned about raising silk worms
they make little white cocoons like those, and they are unwrapped to make silk threads
aqueduct that allowed a water stream to cross another water stream, cool :)
this honda fit, did not fit :)
the walking course was very well marked and easy to follow
nice forest walk (although a lot of uphill to the castle ruins, but no animals :(
all houses used to have access to the water, but some just gave it up now
our ryokan had a very old cat that was half deaf and blind