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Sunlight and cold wind make a special food

Yamanomura, where there are seven villages in the Hida mountain area, has an elevation of 1000 meters. The area is 4.5 km by mountain road from the town of Kamioka. It takes two hours to reach from Takayama City by car. The population is about 150 people. It’s a small town and it is not easy to visit, especially during winter.

Now, we have a road to the area for cars. But before the roads became convenient as they are now, it was difficult to get food to that place, so people had to preserve the foods they produced locally. One resident said, ‘When I was a child, there were only some po…

Yamanomura, where there are seven villages in the Hida mountain area, has an elevation of 1000 meter…

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