Overview
A town of slopes and stone walls. The name Yatsuo is said to come from eight mountains running from Hida toward Toyama.
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The townscape of the old town in Yatsuo, Toyama Prefecture, where the Owara Kaze no Bon festival is held. Suwa-machi is a narrow sloping town of stones piled up on the mountain slope, with stone-paved roads and rows of houses with lattice doors and white walls. On the west side of Nishi-machi is a townscape of high-piled stone walls and eaves, and the stone walls are said to originate from residents opening a town on high ground to escape flooding in the Edo period.
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