Open Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses

Hey😊🍁

It´s Thursday here, and tomorrow it´s the weekend again. But this weekend will include a lot of studying, and I will also participate in a speaking contest on Saturday. We will hold a speech for 5 minutes in Japanese, which will be a real challenge, especially when all other people who are in the contest are Chinese and can speak Japanese fluently😅 I also mixed up the dates and I thought it was going to be next weekend so I´m not directly prepared, but yeah, I´m just doing it for fun and see it as an opportunity to practice my Japanese.

Yesterday was it Wednesday, which means it was my free day so I went to an Open Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouse. It was located in Hattori Ryokuchi Park which was a large park. The open-air museum was really beautiful with all the trees with colored leaves. The weather was also super nice, around 20 C. And I must say, the Japanese fall is totally the best season for visiting Japan. Recommendation😉 I was also almost alone in the park. It was me and 2-3 elderly people who were visiting the park, and some people who worked there.

The houses were built to show how it looked centuries ago, I will write more about it under the pictures below. In one of the houses, I also met two old ladies witting my an open fireplace, not an ordinary one we think of as we have now. This one was like an outdoor fireplace where you hanged the pan or other things over the fire. The one lady had some origami frogs that she showed me. It ended with me sitting there for 40 min doing origami for the first time. She was so sweet, from the beginning I was only supposed to do one, then she said "one more", and one more become two more, etc. Haha, but it was a fun experience to sit in a farmhouse from the 1800-century by an open fire and making origami. I even got some papers to take back home and make some more. So everyone home, be prepared for an origami-lesson^v^

When I was going back, they had a small sale by the entrance. I ended up buying some small things and some paintings. The woman who sold was so glad because the once I had picked was painted by her grandmother and she ended up taking pictures of me with the paintings to send to her. So sweet :3

Now I will continue to prepare for the contest, ganbarimasu (I will do my best).

Mata ne ~

Beautiful fall, from inside the museum. Luxury to have it all to my self (almost).

The picture down is also from inside the museum.

One of the old farmhouses, see the picture below for some information.

Video from inside of the house.

From the inside of one of the houses. This was the fireplace I was talking about. I was sitting on some blankets around one just like this with the old ladies.