The Japan Page

I just returned from a 10 day visit to Japan to see the family and tour around a bit. I had a chance to catch up with my college buddy Yasuhiro and his wife Kyoko and daughter Chihiro-chan, and they were kind enough to take me sightseeing up in the mountains North of Nagoya.

Here is the postman dressed in traditional garb in Minami Kisocho, Nagano Prefecture. The middle of this old town on the Naka Sendo, one of the two old foot highways between Nagoya and Tokyo, was preserved from the Edo time period 100-150 years ago. Many historic old wooden Japanese style inns and stores survive, and many of them are still open for customers.

The wooden box is the old fashioned equivalent of a leather postman's bag and says "Post Office" on it.

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