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This is Ube Chuo Gintengai shopping arcade near Ube-Shinkawa Station. It used to be the city's main shopping place until large shopping malls were built in the suburbs in the 1980s and 1990s.47 views
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Sorinji temple Hondo47 views
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Ryushintei Garden is Yamaguchi Prefecture's oldest Japanese garden. A mountain ridge and pond are used as part of the garden. Only two Japanese gardens in Japan are like this.47 views
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Second floor of Shunan City Museum of Art and History.46 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station where the modern meets the retro part.46 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station is Ube's main train station in central Ube. Trains don't run that often though.46 views
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Ube has a few heavy industries like chemicals and concrete.46 views
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Lobby of Shunan City Museum of Art and History.45 views
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Photo gallery45 views
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Christmas tree45 views
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Entrance to the Hayashi Tadahiko exhibition room. Hayashi is noted for his photos of the post-war years when Japan was poor and devastated by the war. 44 views
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Hayashi continued to shoot photos even while on a wheelchair during his final years. His wheelchair and camera equipment (used for his Tokaido Road series) are displayed in the center of the room. He used Contax cameras.44 views
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Also on the 2nd floor is a room showing the history of Tokuyama.44 views
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Tourist info office at JR Tokuyama Station.44 views
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Minami Ginza shopping arcade 44 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station44 views
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In front of Ube-Shinkawa Station are a few hotels.44 views
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Horror House44 views
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The world's longest horror house at 1,290 meters, certified by Guiness Book of World Records.44 views
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Very quiet in the Ube Chuo Gintengai shopping arcade.44 views
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There were a few large supermarkets here, but they closed.44 views
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Looking for tenants.44 views
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Sorinji temple Hondo main hall.44 views
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Road in front of JR Yanai Station. Walk straight on this road to the white-walled street.43 views
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Shunan Museum of Art and History has a large exhibition room dedicated to photographer Tadahiko Hayashi (1918-1990). 43 views
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Inside the Hayashi Tadahiko exhibition room. Quite spacious. It also has a small video theater interviewing him and showing him at work.43 views
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JR Tokuyama Station and Sanyo Line train.43 views
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Gingko trees in holiday lights.43 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station building43 views
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Seafood restaurant near Humming Road where I had lunch.43 views
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About Yanai's white-walled street.42 views
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Hayashi's photos of parentless and dirty street kids smoking and repatriated Japanese soldiers are important visual records of those years.42 views
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JR Tokuyama Station turnstile.42 views
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JR Tokuyama Station north side.42 views
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JR Tokuyama Station north side.42 views
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Main drag42 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station bus stops.42 views
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Ube-Shinkawa man drag.42 views
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Humming Road shopping arcade.42 views
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Station Mall, what's left of it.42 views
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The white-walled street is called Shirakabe Machinami (白壁の町並み), a short walk from JR Yanai Station.41 views
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Sign indicating that this area is an Important Traditional Townscape.41 views
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About Yanai's goldfish connection.41 views
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Walking along Yanai's white-walled street.41 views
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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.41 views
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Another famous portrait by Hayashi is this one of novelist Sakaguchi Ango. Talk about writer's block. Instead of having a Delete key, he just literally trashed his mistakes. 41 views
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Minami Ginza shopping arcade near JR Tokuyama Station's north side.41 views
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Gingko trees line JR Tokuyama Station's north side. At night, these trees are lit up during the end of the year.41 views
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Holiday lights in front of JR Tokuyama Station's north side in late 2012. They do this in Nov. and Dec.41 views
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Some couples posed or kissed in front of this one. I had to wait a while before no one was there. Good for Valentine's.41 views
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The trees along the main road in front of Tokuyama Station was festooned with lights.41 views
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Ube-Shinkawa Station41 views
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Inside Humming Road shopping arcade.41 views
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Painting by children inside Humming Road shopping arcade in Ube-Shinkawa.41 views
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Intersection in Ube41 views
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Reminds me of Kobe.41 views
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Map of central Yanai.40 views
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The Kunimori merchant's home is large and spacious. You can see how Edo Period merchants lived.40 views
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Iwakuni-KIntaikyo Airport will open on Dec. 13, 2012.40 views
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Map of Yanai's traditional townscape area in Furuichi/Kanaya.40 views
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Toilet40 views
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Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya)40 views
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Riverside in Ube-Shinkawa, Yamaguchi.40 views
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Graffiti art.40 views
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Watanabe Memorial Hall, a concert hall.40 views
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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.39 views
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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.39 views
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The Kunimori home is a former merchant's home. Open 9 am - 5 pm. Closed Mon.39 views
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About the Jizo statue39 views
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Look at this huge barrels of shoyu.39 views
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Mixing the shoyu while it ages for 1.5 year.39 views
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Music box Museum39 views
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Scale model of Muroyano-sono.39 views
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Tadahiko Hayashi was from Tokuyama and his family donated all his photos and camera equipment to this museum.39 views
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Bus stops at JR Tokuyama Station.39 views
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Inside a bus from JR Tokuyama Station.39 views
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JR Tokuyama Station's south side.39 views
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Road in front of JR Tokuyama Station's north side.39 views
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This open part of the arcade must have been the site of one of the large supermarkets that closed.39 views
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Train platform at JR Yanai Station.38 views
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JR Yanai Station.38 views
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About the Kunimori merchant's home.38 views
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2nd floor of Kunimori merchant's home.38 views
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Folding screen38 views
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Window on the 2nd floor of Kunimori merchant's home..38 views
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Don't step on this.38 views
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Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura)38 views
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Entrance to the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura), a very large building with white walls.38 views
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Bocho bus in front of Yanai Station.38 views
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Charcoal heaters38 views
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Gadget storehouse (Dogugoya) included old cameras.38 views
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Palanquin38 views
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Armor38 views
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In front of JR Tokuyama Station's north side are taxis. Behind them are bus stops.38 views
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Inside JR Yanai Station.37 views
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Cross the river.37 views
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Entrance to the white-walled street. Even the private home on the right is white.37 views
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Narrow alley37 views
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Atago Jizo statue to protect against fires.37 views
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Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura)37 views
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About the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura). They make a special kind of soy sauce called kanro soy sauce.37 views
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Inside the Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse (Kura).37 views
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Shoyu soy sauce factory. 37 views
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Shoyu gift shop.37 views
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Huge barrels of soy sauce for aging. This was very impressive. The smell of shoyu in the air.37 views
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How they make shoyu.37 views
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It takes a few years to make the soy sauce.37 views
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Exclusive room with a koto.37 views
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Mirrors37 views
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About the former Suo Bank building.37 views
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Directional signs in English.36 views
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First you see Muroya-no-Sono, a longhouse museum.36 views
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Street heading to JR Yanai Station.36 views
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Ceiling of Sagawa Soy Sauce Storehouse.36 views
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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.36 views
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Urinal36 views
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Moon window36 views
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Maid's room36 views
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Bento lunch boxes36 views
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Courtyard with roof tile decorations.36 views
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River runs parallel to the white-walled townscape.35 views
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Park35 views
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