The ranch is huge, with lots of natural flowers and plants. There are also cute animals around. I tried Hida beef for the first time here.
Bokka no Sato (Pastoral Village) | Review by 何婉瑜
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Mori Ogai Former Residence
Mori Ogai, a major literary figure of the Meiji era, is known for "The Dancing Girl," a story about the love between a Japanese student studying abroad and a German girl. The place he lived when he was assigned to Kokura as head of the medical corps of the former Imperial Japanese Army’s 12th Division is the "Mori Ogai Former Residence," a designated cultural property of Kitakyushu City. This wooden Japanese-style house was built around 1897, and it is said that Mori Ogai mainly used an eight-tatami reception room and a smaller four-and-a-half-tatami room that continues on the south side.
It’s rare to be able to get this close and really feel the traces of a great literary figure’s everyday life.
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Takayama Jin-ya
Takayama Jin-ya is the office building where magistrates and officers were working in the Edo Period. It consists of offices and storage. In 1692 when Hida Province came under the Tokugawa shogunate’s direct control, governors and magistrates sent from Edo performed official duties here for the next 176 years.
This used to be the local government office. You can still see the tools they used for holding prisoners.
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Taisho Pond
Taisho Pond was created by the blockage of the Azusa River due to the eruption of Yakedake Mountain in 1915. The clean blue-green water clearly reflects the beautiful Kamikochi mountain range. The forest under the water has decayed in a mystical way, which now gives the pond a spiritual atmosphere. The beautiful birch forest spreads out at an altitude of 1,490 meters above sea level, the highest level where these kinds of trees are able to grow.
As soon as you get off the bus, you see the beautiful mountains reflected in the lake. The scenery here is amazing—it feels like being in Europe.