Akita - Kakunodate (Samurai Village)

After Tarawa Lake, we were heading for Kakunodade, where you can see houses used by Samurai.

Samurai items are my son's favourite and he was so exited to see it!!

Here's the distance from Tarawa Lake to Kakunodate.

When we arrived, it was...
Cozy, quiet, greenery area...

Black wall were beginning to show up.

BTW, most of Japanese Samurai houses have this kind of black walls.

I thought it was some kind of Samurai symbol or something but it seems it was the colour of Japanese lacquer.

There was a Japanese rickshaw (Jinrikisha).

It's also nice to try this nostalgic rickshaw to feel Japanese old life style.

We found one Samurai manor - Aoyanagi family manor.

Inside the house.

 Warrior armour and helmet used in Samurai era.

We went to another house in this estate.. 

There were mainly old Japanese paintings here.

Old Japanese map.

There was no "Hokkaido"~!

Maybe it was not found yet...?!

We went to another house..

So many houses in this estate..!

 There were mainly about farmer's tools.

Here comes another house..

There were many old pictures here.

That's all about Aoyanagi family manor.

It was really a huge house...!

Here's Aoyanagi family manor website. :)

After that, we found the ice-cream selling granny our tour guide was talking about!

She is so old and cute.

She makes flower shaped ice-cream. :)

I also took a video of her making ice-cream.