Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nenba

photo by Davide Mauro · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by Stephan Ridgway from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0

A landslide wiped out the village in 1966: forty years later it was rebuilt by its residents.

Today the village has about twenty thatched-roof houses, each with a different workshop (ceramics, washi paper, incense, carving) where you can try the craft, with Fuji behind the roofs.

Open-air museum village in the municipality of Fujikawaguchiko, run by the local tourism association, opened in July 2006 on the site of the old settlement of Nenba. On the night of 25 September 1966 a debris flow (土石流) swept away the fishing and farming village that stood here: of the more than forty original houses, only four were left standing. In 2006 residents and the municipality rebuilt about twenty of them, thatched, recreating the look of the lost village.

ℹ️ 9:00–17:00 (December–February 9:30–16:30). Ticket: 500 yen adults (high school and above), 250 yen elementary/junior high school children.

🚉 68 · 3 min walk

Sources: town.fujikawaguchiko.lg.jp · ja.wikipedia.org

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