Ouchi-juku Post Town - Fukushima, Japan

Ouchi-juku (大内宿) is an old post town in the mountains of Fukushima Prefecture, and this camera looks down its main street of thatched-roof houses and dirt road, with mountains all around. Travelers once stopped here on the road to Nikko and Edo, now Tokyo.

Today those thick-thatched houses are shops, noodle restaurants and inns, and visitors stroll the dirt road between them. The town was protected as a historic district in 1981, after locals fought to keep its old look.

The scene changes a lot through the year, with cherry blossom in spring, green hills in summer, red and gold in the fall, and in winter, roofs that disappear under heavy snow.

Did You Know? The local specialty is negi soba - noodles eaten with a whole green onion instead of chopsticks.

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