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If you want to experience something unique on your trip to Japan, then try and take some time off and escape to a few rural areas in the country. The rural parts of Japan are extremely beautiful and there is a lot you can see in these places that you can never even think of experiencing in the urban parts. If you are looking for a place to go, then consider Miyama.
Miyama is a far-flung rural place in the mountains, about 30kms in the northern direction of central Kyoto. Miyama is well known for its farm houses with thatched roofs (kayabuki). Around 200 such farmhouses dot the countryside of Miyama. In Miyama, people work and live in such farmhouses. Visitors get an authentic yet rural essence of Japan from these farmhouses. The look is incredibly traditional and that’s what people love.
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This area is made up of hamlets and small villages that are scattered along a winding valley. Kayabuki no Sato or the northern village is the main attraction of Miyama. This village has 40 farmhouses with thatched roofs but as most of them are residential, visitors can’t enter them. The Kayabuki no Sato Folk Museum, is a building that is open to the public. Daily household items and traditional tools from the past are exhibited in this museum.
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You can stay a night at a few of the farmhouses that are open to public and allow lodging. Three such farmhouses exist in Kayabuki no Sato. The farmhouses have tatami floors and you can sleep on futon beds. You can also go hiking and sweetfish fishing along the river Yura. Shizen Bunkamura Kajikaso, an accommodation and nature centre is at some distance.
This is one of the best ways you can experience the rural Japan. So, if you are planning your trip to rural Japan, keep Miyama in mind.
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