Maruyama Water Tank
About 300 meters south of the former Yamaichi Hayashi-gumi Silk Manufacturing Office is a hill called Maruyama.
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Former Yamaichi Hayashi-gumi Silk Manufacturing Office
This is Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture.
Okaya City (*) flourished as a center of the silk industry from the Meiji ...
Former Shiga Elementary School (2025)
I visited Shiga Elementary School again the other day, a school that closed in 1990.
In the foreground is a stone ...
Pop-up card : buildings in Iceland
The Althing, Iceland’s parliament, is said to be the oldest democratic parliament in the world.
Founded aro ...
Cherry blossoms at Tatsuoka Castle
In 1863, Norikata Matsudaira, the lord of the Okudono domain in Mikawa Province, moved his domain office to Tanokuchi ...