Ouchijuku

Pictures taken at dusk in Ochijuku, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on 7 VIII 2004.
Ouchijuku was an important relay on the way to the capital, Edo (Tokyo), during the Edo period in Japan. Now it is a small hamlet with nice thatched roof houses.

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 Back of a shrine (holy part) (Ouchijuku_5120.jpg)
Back of a shrine (holy part)		 Interior of a shrine: paper cranes hanged to the roof (Ouchijuku_5125.jpg)
Interior of a shrine: paper cranes hanged to the roof
Interior of a shrine: paper cranes hanged to the roof (Ouchijuku_5130.jpg)
Interior of a shrine: paper cranes hanged to the roof		 Interior of a shrine: money thrown by the believers (Ouchijuku_5129.jpg)
Interior of a shrine: money thrown by the believers		 Little buddha (Ouchijuku_5131.jpg)
Little buddha

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