This morning after a good buffet breakfast in the hotel, we went to the Morning Market along the canal in the designated preservation district. Both sides of the street were lined with small specialty vendors hawking their goods. As you can see from the photo, there were tourists in abundance.
Next on our itinerary this morning was a visit to the Magistrate's building. Chiaki said there once were 48 of these offices but this one is the only one left in Japan.
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| Ocean waves are part of this magistrate's seal |
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| This clerk's room is representative of the several official business tatami rooms |
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| This view of the building is from the right wing |
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| This cookstove has no chimney because the smoke was necessary to help preserve the thatch roof that was used before the shingles on the newer roof. |
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| Cooking pots and vessels of various kinds |
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| This is one of the rabbits |
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An interesting lock for sliding doors and shutters works by sliding the vertical wooden bar
up into the hole in the top jamb and resting it on the raised portion of the holder. |
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| Shingle splitting area where shingles are produced for the roof. |
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| An example of how the shingles were laid. |
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