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JR Obatake Station platform.

There is bus transportation from Obatake Station, but they run once an hour or so. If you want to visit the museum, you can take a nori-ai taxi (a small van) at Obatake Station costing 400 yen to the museum. The ride is maybe 10-15 min. or so.

Central Yanai has a beautiful street of traditional buildings having traditional white walls (shirakabe). The area is officially preserved as a traditional townscape (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).

The white-walled street is called Shirakabe Machinami (白壁の町並み), a short walk from JR Yanai Station.

Train platform at JR Yanai Station.

JR Yanai Station.

Inside JR Yanai Station.

Map of central Yanai.

The goldfish is the symbol of Yanai, Yamaguchi. Here's on atop a mailbox.

Road in front of JR Yanai Station. Walk straight on this road to the white-walled street.

A few scupltures along the road to the white-walled street. Yanai, Yamaguchi

Directional signs in English.

Yanai, Yamaguchi

About Yanai's white-walled street.

Cross the river.

First you see Muroya-no-Sono, a longhouse museum.

Street heading to JR Yanai Station.

Entrance to the white-walled street. Even the private home on the right is white.

Private home blending in with the white-walled street in Yanai, Yamaguchi.

Sign indicating that this area is an Important Traditional Townscape.

About Yanai's goldfish connection.

Walking along Yanai's white-walled street.

Yanai's white-walled street has a long history going back to the Muromachi Period (1337-1573). It used to be a merchant quarter. The street is about 200 meters long.

Buildings are beautiful and in unison. Very impressive. Most buildings are private, but there are a few tourist shops and homes open to the public.

This is the Kunimori family home, open to the public. Important Cultural Property. Admission 200 yen. Yanai, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

The Kunimori home is a former merchant's home. Open 9 am - 5 pm. Closed Mon.

About the Kunimori merchant's home.

Inside the Kunimori-ke merchant's home.

The Kunimori merchant's home is large and spacious. You can see how Edo Period merchants lived.

2nd floor of Kunimori merchant's home.

Folding screen

Window on the 2nd floor of Kunimori merchant's home..

Yanai, Yamaguchi

Don't step on this.

Yanai, Yamaguchi

Narrow alley

Yanai, Yamaguchi

Manhole in Yanai, Yamaguchi based on the white-walled townscape.

Atago Jizo statue to protect against fires.

About the Jizo statue

River runs parallel to the white-walled townscape.

Park

Yanai, Yamaguchi

They did very well in preserving this traditional townscape. But I did see one house that was totally modern and didn't match the white-wall homes.

Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura)

Entrance to the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura), a very large building with white walls.

About the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura). They make a special kind of soy sauce called kanro soy sauce.

Inside the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura).

Shoyu soy sauce factory.

Shoyu gift shop.

Ceiling of Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse.

Look at this huge barrels of shoyu.

Huge barrels of soy sauce for aging. This was very impressive. The smell of shoyu in the air.

How they make shoyu.

Mixing the shoyu while it ages for 1.5 year.

It takes a few years to make the soy sauce.

Goldfish manhole at Yanai, Yamaguchi.

Yanai, Yamaguchi

Iwakuni-KIntaikyo Airport will open on Dec. 13, 2012.

Music box Museum

Bocho bus in front of Yanai Station.

Muroyano-sono is a long house (Machiya) museum, formerly the estate of an oil merchant. It is adjacent to Yanai's townscape of white-wall buildings.

Probably built in 1702, Muroyano-sono consists of several buildings clustered together. They include the main building (omoya), main storehouse (hongura), and rice storehouse (komegura).

Muroyano-sono is open 9 am to 5 pm and closed on Wed. and during the year end and New Year's period. Admission is a few hundred yen.

Map of Yanai's traditional townscape area in Furuichi/Kanaya.

Floor plan of Muroyano-sono.

Scale model of Muroyano-sono.

Entrance area of main building, serving as the business office.

Toilet

Urinal

Small shrine outside.

Moon window

Bath tub

Upstairs of main building (omoya).

Ceiling beams

Exclusive room with a koto.

Maid's room

Old lanterns

Charcoal heaters

Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya)

Inside the Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya).

Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya) included old cameras.

Old cameras

Make-up instruments for women.

Combs

Samisen

Phonograph

Bento lunch boxes

For tea

Bento lunch boxes for rice.

Mirrors

Courtyard with roof tile decorations.

Farming tools

Palanquin

Kitchen stove

Weaving

Palanquin

Armor

Firefighting equipment

Adjacent to Muroyano-sono is this distinctive building hat used to be Suo Bank built in 1907 and designed by Sato Setsuo. It is now the Tourist Information Office and local museum. 町並み資料館

Former Suo Bank serving as tourist information office.

About the former Suo Bank building.

Inside the Yanai tourist information office and local museum.

Scale model of Yanai's traditional townscape.

The second floor also has exhibits.

Exhibits about a prominent local singer.

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