Old Warehouse These warehouse were the symbol of a rich house, but they got to be deserted house like this.

This is an old warehouse. It is a Japanese traditional storehouse, these walls are made from clay. I happened to see them after catching the cat with the camera. But whenever I go through that road on my bike, I was thinking I tried to take a picture of the deserted warehouse. I was lost after taking cat's picture, and I came out on the road along the Kitakami River. This area is between mountain and a broad river, so flat ground is not too much, there is only a narrow slender place there. Would you please click MAP if you don't mind? As you can see, a lot of high cedars are behind the storehouse, the warehouses looks like be covered with cedars. A traditional warehouse like these was sure to be seen in the rich house in Japan. But this area looked poor because flat ground is too shortage to make a field. And this is a region where it gets flooded often, so the house and fields should be easily under the flooded water of the Kitakami River. So it is too dangerous area to live, but why there is a storehouse of a symbol of rich house.
     
Actually, big the river of Kitakami in front of the warehouse was crowded with a lot of ship that passed through to carry freight, especially rice to Ishinomaki, at the mouse of the river until 100 years ago. And a lot of those rice bags were carried to Edo (Tokyo) from the port with a big cargo ship. Those ships came and went between Ishinomaki and Morioka for 200km(125miles) until the Tohoku Line of a railroad was built from Tokyo to Aomori, the most northern city on the same island. Some ruined houses are seen around there like them, but I like this area, but I think it was hard to live there for people, especially flooded water often from the river. It was hard to come there in old days until about 20 years ago unless not have a boat because the road is too narrow to drive a car, but a broad road was built about 10 yeas ago, the area got not to be a remote and lonely island at least after that. By the way, there is a forgotten gate in front of the warehouses, isn't it? I think there would have been cows in the gate in old days.