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Naramachi
Charming Edo-Period Merchant Quarter with Machiya Townhouses
A charming old merchant district south of Sarusawa Pond with well-preserved Edo-period machiya to...
Gojo Shinmachi
Gojo Shinmachi, an Edo-Period Merchant Street on the Old Kishu Road by the Yoshino River
About 750 m of white-plastered merchant houses along the old Kishu Kaido on the north bank of the...
Imai-cho
A Moated Temple Town Turned Merchant Town, Where People Still Live in the Edo-Period Houses
An old merchant town in Kashihara where roughly 1,500 buildings fill an area about 600 m by 310 m...
Uda Matsuyama
A Quiet Old Medicine and Kuzu Town in Uda, with an Herb Garden Planted in 1729
A former castle town in the Ouda part of Uda City that turned into a merchant town for medicines,...
Yamato-Koriyama Goldfish Town
Yamato-Koriyama's Goldfish Town: Tanks Along the Shopping Street, a Free Goldfish Museum and the Dyers' Canal Street
The old castle town below Koriyama Castle has bred goldfish for about 300 years and still has aro...