Kawasaki

On Saturday, the three of us took the train to Kawasaki which has lots of museums and such but we went there to visit Nihon Minkaen. Basically, it's like the Ohio Village but for Japan and more authentic. They have taken lots of historically significant buildings from all over Japan and brought them to this one place, forming 3 different little villages. They've restored the buildings and set them up as functioning buildings. Each one has a story of the family that lived in them and what the building functioned as before it was moved. You could walk through most of the buildings, they all seemed very primitive but functional at the same time. I loved the openness of all of them with the walls that slide and such. Some of them even have people that u se the old cooking hearth and tell stories, but we couldn't understand those people. There were about 25 buildings in all and it cost us $5 to get in, but it was worth it. It was really interesting and beautiful to see the different types of architecture.