On the Way Home

This was the fence in front of our car in the parking lot near the thatched roof house we visited.


This screen was outside the thatched roof house.




An ice cream stand in the small town down the street from the thatched house we visited.



This is a vending machine at a rest stop on our way. For 100 yen, a small toy in a plastic ball rolls down this spiral path. I have never seen one like this. We didn't watch it in action, but it looks cool.




These are wind generators on a high hill.




At a rest stop along the way, there was a case of ropes with a story. A neighboring ruler had told the residents of the area that he would not attack them if they could make a rope out of ashes. People in the area recently tried to make one and came up with this and two others.