Ikazaki Kite Museum

Nice little Kite museum, the first established in Japan

Lots of wonderfully decorated kites fill 4 rooms, along with kite making and kite flying tools. This town & the kite museum hold a kite flying contest every year. The man who sold us our tickets spoke...

A friendly museum

It is a rather small museum with nice display of kites used in the local festival. The gift shop was the highlight. We bought silk screen prints of the annual kite festival. They are very nice and ...

It's an eye treat.

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Access is bad, so if you are not a car, rent a bicycle at Tabirian. The cherry blossoms from all over the world are also on display, but it was the cherry blossoms of Japanese cranes that I thought were the most beautiful １. I was impressed that there was a cranes themselves like this.

Excellent しい Staff の Fang

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I visited on weekdays in mid-March. Since it was a weekday, there were no other visitors than us. Therefore, the staff told me that the color 々 was attached to the naiko no Tsuji. The main hall is decorated with many cherry blossoms from all over the world (of course in Japan), and according to the staff, any shape of cherry blossoms has once flew in the sky! I don't think I usually touch it very deeply, so I think it's interesting to stop by when I visit Uchiko ...

Fighting...

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The Otsuki Battle, called "Kenka Tsubo," is a traditional event in Uchiko Town. In the hall, many Tsubo from all over the country, such as Yakkodako and the Tsubo with the face of a demon, were exhibited. The Tsubo was spectacular.