Obama
First to visit Obama’s fish market
We then went to the food museum, all in Japanese but still quite interesting.
After that we went around the town on bikes rented from the museum.
Hatched roofs now have to be changed every 30 years, used to be closer to every 60 years. This is due to the change in cooking and heating habits, no more open fires. The surroundings cannot produce enough hatching material to keep all the houses with traditional roofs, so only a couple main houses are now maintained as an open air museum.
This town also hosts a peculiar Indigo museum, peculiar as it was created by the passion of one man and is covering all methods of producing indigo – not just limited to Japanese tradition. A true passion!
Off to Kyoto …
