Sixth day in Japan

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Kawagoe, an old town from the Edo period

Today Steve and Yoshiko and Michie went to Kawagoe. It is an hour's train ride north of Shinjuku station in Tokyo. Here are a few pictures taken in that town.

Here is one of the old buildings still left in Kawagoe. There were a few dozon of these buildings scattered about the center of town.

Here is the sign placed above the entrance of one of the buildings. It has very old Japanese characters and I can't read them. Can you?

Two geisha's by their gin-rickshaw

The bell and water tower in the center of the old town.

Kawagoe is noted for it's sweet potatos (among other things.) Here are Yoshiko and Michie enjoying sweet potato ramen noodles and sweet potato gyoza (pot stickers for you non-Japanese)
At the temple we met a girl with a pet ferret (and you thought Father's pet beetle was strange?) Here is Michie holding the ferret.

In one part of the town they are still making candies the old fashioned way. Yoshiko found it quite nostalgic to see a lot of the treats she knew and enjoyed as a girl.

Shown here are a few of them. Needles to say we brought a few back with us.

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Here is one of the old buildings still left in Kawagoe. There were a few dozon of these buildings scattered about the center of town.	Here is the sign placed above the entrance of one of the buildings. It has very old Japanese characters and I can't read them. Can you?
Two geisha's by their gin-rickshaw	The bell and water tower in the center of the old town.
Kawagoe is noted for it's sweet potatos (among other things.) Here are Yoshiko and Michie enjoying sweet potato ramen noodles and sweet potato gyoza (pot stickers for you non-Japanese)	At the temple we met a girl with a pet ferret (and you thought Father's pet beetle was strange?) Here is Michie holding the ferret.
In one part of the town they are still making candies the old fashioned way. Yoshiko found it quite nostalgic to see a lot of the treats she knew and enjoyed as a girl.	Shown here are a few of them. Needles to say we brought a few back with us.