Koshin-etsu area

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This is Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture.
Okaya City (*) flourished as a center of the silk industry from the Meiji ...

Koshin-etsu area

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I visited Shiga Elementary School again the other day, a school that closed in 1990.
In the foreground is a stone ...

Koshin-etsu area

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Inariyama Park is located in Usuda, Saku City, Nagano Prefecture.
Topographically, the eastern side is a cliff wi ...

Koshin-etsu area

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At the end of March, the Iida Sozokan Hall was closed.
I missed the opportunity to visit the hall while it was op ...

Koshin-etsu area

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The north-eastern part of Matsumoto City was “Shiga Village” before it was merged with Matsumoto City in ...