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The city keeps the old traditional Japanese townhouses, called Mchiya, to preserve the beautiful old town landscape. Just walking down the streets downtown is quite fun with those antique houses.
By the way, Murakami is also a hometown of a young professional snowboarder Ayumu Hirano who recently won a sliver medal in the half-pipe competition in 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. He actually won the silver medal in the winter X Games last year, but I didn't him till at all. Sorry not interested in snowboarding.
- See also;
2. <I'm back to this page> http://funtravelinjapan.blogspot.jp/2012/05/im-back-to-this-page.html
FYI:
- About Murakami City: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murakami,_Niigata
- Murakami City Tourism Association (Japanese): http://www.sake3.co
- About Machiya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiya
- Nigata Prefcture Tourism Guide: http://enjoyniigata.com/english
- About Ayumu Hirano: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumu_Hirano
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| This is not a machiya. Just an abandoned gas station. |
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| Murakami Station |
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| One of machiyas |
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| Machiya with Rolls-Royce |
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| Machiya of salmon |
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| A machiya I stepped in was a mercantile house of salmon. They open some parts of the house to the public as a museum |
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| Old cloths store |
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| This machiya was converted to an tourist information center. |
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| Inside of the machiya tourist information center |
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| Old liquor store. |
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| This is a book store |
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| Clock store |
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| This isn't a machiya. Just a closed shop. Barely read the signage indicating "bakery" |
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| This is an open bakery called Tora-ya (= tiger bakery) |
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| Fisherman in Miomote River. The traditional salmon fishing style is still preserved. |
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| Not sure this boat is still active. |
