Where Hilma would send you
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Nagoro Doll Village (Kakashi no Sato)
Attraction
Oct 3
Nagoro Doll Village (Kakashi no Sato)β β β β Hilma's pick
Tsukimi Ayano's handmade dolls outnumber the living twenty-five to four hundred in this remote mountain hamlet. Not a tourist photo-op β one woman's quiet refusal to let her village disappear, sitting at bus stops and school desks in the deeper Iya Valley.
191 Sugeoi, Higashi-Iya, Miyoshi, Tokushima 778-0201, Japan -
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Former Kitake Samurai Residence (Buke Yashiki Kyu Kitake)
Landmark
Oct 3
Former Kitake Samurai Residence (Buke Yashiki Kyu Kitake)β β β β β Hilma's pick
The largest samurai home in Iya, built in 1763, with irori hearths, blackened beams, and tatami halls preserved as a cultural property. Still a living venue β the autumn jazz concert here showed that these old houses hold more than history.
43 Higashiiya-oeda, Miyoshi-shi, Tokushima, Japan