Buildings in 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 ...

Buildings in 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 ...

Pop-up Europe

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The Althing, Iceland’s parliament, is said to be the oldest democratic parliament in the world.
Founded aro ...

Cultural property

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In 1863, Norikata Matsudaira, the lord of the Okudono domain in Mikawa Province, moved his domain office to Tanokuchi ...

Buildings in 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 ...