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A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
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Itaibara Settlement is a mountain village settlement in Chizu, Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture. A prefecturally selected Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The settlement, nestled among surrounding mountains such as Ushibushiyama and Kaijoyama, retains a legend of being a hidden village of Taira clan fugitives. It is a settlement located at an elevation of about 430 meters in a valley of the Itaibara River (Akanami River) in the Sendai River system, in the mountains behind Ushibushiyama at Chizu-juku on the Chizu Orai road; it prospered on farming and charcoal burning in the Edo period and sericulture in the Meiji period.
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Founded / opened：Edo period Highlights / collection：Plank-roofed farmhouses in the mountains, Village inaccessible by car Genre：Architecture
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