Kinwashi Tour Japan Thread
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NAGOYA - COCHIN
Nagoya-Cochin is one of the most famous domestic bred chickens.
The chickens are a cross-breed of native Nagoya chickens with Chinese buff cochins in 1868.
Meat is reddish, tender and rich in flavor, so that
more expensive than the most popular chicken meat.
Nagoya cochin meat sometimes called "kashiwa" because the color of the chicken feathers is
buff brown like kashiwa (family of beech,)
It can be cooked in many ways:
Shio-yaki (grilled chicken with salt), Iso-age ( deep-fried chicken with nori or laver),
Kara-age (chicken deep-fried without batter)
Yakitori (broiled chicken on skewers), mizutaki (chicken and vegetable stew) etc.
male female ←　↑ buff color feathers and gray legs 
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See Chicken wings only two parts, no chicken wing drum.
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Shikemichi
(四間�)
Shike(四間) means four ken/7.2m, 23.9ft (1ken is 1.82m/5.97ft)
& michi (�) means road.　
Shikemichi area was designated as a historic conservation district by Nagoya City in 1986.
This row of old-fashoned warehouses were compleated in circa 1740. 
Between 1476 and 1610, the seat of the Owari Government was located in Kiyosu.
(Approx. 7km northwest of Nagoya and there was Kiyosu Castle.)
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In 1610, Tokugawa Ieyasu (shogun) commanded the relocation of
the capital of the Owari Clan from Kiyosu (approx. 7km north-west of Nagoya) to Nagoya.
Then, city of sixty thousand inhabitants had started to moved completely to the new town Nagoya; people, houses, temples, shrines, place names, etc.
While the construction of Nagoya Castle, a surrounding castle town was built in parallel.
The town was created by design.
People could live only in designated area according to their class.
This sudden migration was called Kiyosu-goshi.
This migration was done to defend against a possible attack from west, which
means an attack from Toyotomi side troopes, and also to avoid floods of the Gojo River.
Nagoya Castle was built at the north edge of the Nagoya diluvial tableland, natural fortfication.
Nagoya is roughly devided into three configurations.Center Naka, Higashi,
Showa, Mizuho,
part of Atsuta,
part of Minamitableland, smoothly slope
down and away
from north to south10-15m East Moriyama, Chikusa,
Meito,
Tempaku, Midorigradual hilly terrain 50-100m North,
West
SouthKita, Nishi, Nakamura,
Nakagawa, Minato,
part of Atsuta,
part of Minamilowland River floodplain
A Horikawa canal was constructed from the port of Atsuta to Nagoya Castle in order to carry building materials to build a castle.
(Atsuta Shrine was faced to the sea in the Edo period)
Merchants had to build their office buildings facing to the canal and warehouses with plaster wall on the back of them in a row.
They trade in rice, salt, miso, sake, fuel, etc. using the canal to transport their merchandise.
and provide them to the people in the castle town.
This area became a commodity distribution center and prospered.
However, a huge fire in 1700, called Genroku-no-Taika, destroyed 1649 merchant's houses and 15 temples or shrines
The 4th lord of Owari Clan, Tokugawa Yoshimichi, decided to widen the back street of Horikawa canal
to four "ken", approx. 7m, and build warehouses with plaster wall on the east-side of the road as fire walls.
It took approx. 40 years to finish the construction.
This is responsible for the name of Shikemichi.
Picture of Sengen Shrine.
From "Owari meisho Zue" published in 1844.(In the Edo period)
The bridge in the picture is Gojo Bridge. (Please check the map below)
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Please take care and try to find a blue sign of "那�野一�目３３番地"(pic below)
(Nagono Itchome sanjusan-banchi) on the wall, opposit side of the warehouses.
Turn that corner, you will find something intersting.
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Komori Jizo Row house 
Yanegamisama About a rooftop shrine
Address
Nagono, Nishi-ku
Access
Get off at Marunouchi Sta. on the Tsurumai Subway line.
Walk 4 min.
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Get off at Kokusai-Center Sta. on the Sakuradori Subway Line.
Walk 4 min.
Marunouchi Sta. No.3,4,5,6 are Sakuradori Line exit & 1,2,7,8 are Tsurumai Line exit.
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NOHGAKU�DO
èƒ½æ¥½å ‚(NOH THEATER)
View from Nagoya Castle side View from Route 215 side
Nagoya developed as a castle town of the Owari
Tokugawa family during the Edo Period (1603 - 1867 ).
This time also witnessed the flowering of the entertainment industry in Nagoya,
and it was called "geidokoro", or the entertainment capital.
After the Meiji era, Nagoya contributed to the development of local culture,
not only traditional culture but also in new genres.
Nohgakudo is where these traditional Noh performances take place.
And even today they house community functions
along with Noh performances.
In the entrance hall, mechanical dolls are displayed
which perform several times a day.
You can also try on a Noh mask on the way to the exhibit room.
The Noh stage is made of hinoki, Japanese cypress.
Traditionaly the picture on a kagamiita (the front wall
on the stage) is 'Oimatsu',
a traditional pine tree representing long life,
but in Nagoya Noh Theater, in odd numbered years
' Wakamatsu, ' young pine trees, are placed on stage."Oimatsu ��"(old pine tree)
The picture of "Wakamatsu" was painted by Sugimoto Kenkichi
and "Oimatsu" was painted by Matsuno Hideyo.
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Sometimes you can even watch traditional entertainment like Noh,
Kyogen and Nagauta etc. performed by amateurs free of charge.
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1-1-1 Sannomaru Naka-ku Nagoya
Tel:
Fax: 052-231-8756
Open: 9:00-17:00
Close: Dec. 29 to Jan. 1
Fee: .free for exhibition, pay or free for performances
Get off at "Marunouchi " on the Tsurumai or Sakuradori subway line,
take exit No.1
Walk to the north about 700m, 10 minutes.
Get off at " Shiyakusho "on the Meijyo lsubway line,
go through exit No.7
Walk to the west about 800m, 12-3 minutes.
map
Monthly Info.
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Ichiran Ramen Restaurant Fukuoka
You will get many Japanese restaurants in Fukuoka. However, if you are a die-hard fan of noodle dishes and looking for delicious noodles, just hop in to Ichiran Ramen Restaurant in Fukuoka. You will get fabulous Japanese dishes here specially the noodles.
Located in Chuo-ku area of Fukuoka city, Ichiran Ramen Restaurant is a Japanese restaurant popular among the locals of Kyushu. The most popular dish of this restaurant is the special tonkotsu ramen—which is a kind of noodles topped by a pork cutlet. Besides of this special ramen noodles, one will get several varieties of ramen at Ichiran Ramen restaurant.The average cost of dining at Ichiran Ramen Japanese Restaurant in Fukuoka is Y800. However the cost of the ramen noodles starts from a reasonable JPY 600 and reaches till JPY 1,000. Credit cards are not accepted.
Address:
1-10-15 Tenjin, Chuo-ku,
Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 810-0001Open Hours: 24 hours daily.
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What is this? from Fukuoka.
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