JUST ABOUT THE RIGHT SIZE
Double twins at the Tajimi International Exchange Association party, 2017.
Tajimi is a not too small, not too big town in Gifu Prefecture, in the centre of Japan's main island, Honshu. When you step out of the station after half an hour's train ride from the metropolis Nagoya on the east coast, what you see doesn't seem too different from many other towns in the Japanese countryside. You might even say it looks quite dull.
However, if you take the time to explore, you'll find one treasure after the other. I have been given the task by the Tajimi Tourism Association to present the city to you from the perspective of a foreign resident - quite an unusual thing to do for a Japanese company. What I have found after my first couple of years living here, is that there are hidden treasures everywhere, but you need to know where to look for them. That's where this site will help. You step into a plain looking old building, and suddenly you find yourself in a spaghetti house with a typical post war interior serving old-style Showa-style spaghetti dishes.
Take a short trip up in the hills, and all of you sudden you stand in front of a beautiful, massive Zen temple, surrounded by ponds in a serene garden. No hoards of tourists ruin the impression here. Climb another hill nearby, and enter a pottery workshop - pottery is the pride of Tajimi. A bit further down the road you, in the forest on the left side of the road, you will an old kiln, hiding in the greenery. Pottery has been produced in kilns like that for a thousand years in these hills.
Happy travel!
Hans Karlsson
Site Author
However, if you take the time to explore, you'll find one treasure after the other. I have been given the task by the Tajimi Tourism Association to present the city to you from the perspective of a foreign resident - quite an unusual thing to do for a Japanese company. What I have found after my first couple of years living here, is that there are hidden treasures everywhere, but you need to know where to look for them. That's where this site will help. You step into a plain looking old building, and suddenly you find yourself in a spaghetti house with a typical post war interior serving old-style Showa-style spaghetti dishes.
Take a short trip up in the hills, and all of you sudden you stand in front of a beautiful, massive Zen temple, surrounded by ponds in a serene garden. No hoards of tourists ruin the impression here. Climb another hill nearby, and enter a pottery workshop - pottery is the pride of Tajimi. A bit further down the road you, in the forest on the left side of the road, you will an old kiln, hiding in the greenery. Pottery has been produced in kilns like that for a thousand years in these hills.
Happy travel!
Hans Karlsson
Site Author
