The Inakura terraced rice fields in Ueda.
認めます:私は棚田が大好きです。
先日は上田市方面でのお客様の送迎の途中で「稲倉棚田」って書いてあった小さな看板を見ました。帰りは小さな冒険で寄ってみました。
上田市で棚田が日本棚田100選になっていて、かかしがいっぱい飾ってある棚田はどこかにあるって前から聞いていました。稲倉の棚田にたどり着いたら、広い棚田に可愛いかかしが見守っていて、アッ、ここだ!と分かりました。下に上田盆地も眺めて、素晴らしい棚田。
I admit, I have a fetish for terraced rice fields. There's something timeless and romantic about the shape of the fields etched into the hillsides.
The other day while dropping off some guests in Ueda City, I passed a small sign that read "Inakura Tanada" (the terraced rice fields of Inakura). So on the way back, I went for a little adventure and stopped to see the fields.
I had heard there was a 'tanada' in Ueda selected as one of the top 100 in Japan, and that was populated (?) by lots of scarecrows. As soon as I came upon the scenic fields and saw the humurous scarecrows, I realized Inakura was the place. With views of the Ueda Plain down below, Inakura is a spectacular tanada site.
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