Walking around Nawate 2

■松本の高原の旅■ 牛伏川上流部の階段流路牛伏川の階段流路 2 牛伏川の階段流路 3 牛伏寺探訪牛伏寺探訪 2




■ほかの街あるき記事■ 信州の旅と街あるき小布施まちあるき別所温泉・塩田平ホーム別所温泉まちあるき上田まちあるき

Traveller's Sentiment

  Nawatedori street make visitors feel some traveller's sentiment. There we would feel as if we were in the fair of a temple or a shrine, out of the daily life.
  Walking the street, I imagine Nakamise-arcade of Sensoji in Asakusa or shop-houses in front of Taishakuten in Katsushika-Shibamata.
  Every shop-house standing on the riverside of Metoba-gawa is tiny. Each would take a role of stall for tourists. That samll shops get together along the street let us feel as if many open-stalls stood in a fair.
  Someone would feel as if they were in a cheap confectionary shop ―Dagashiya― in their childhood.

▲At front of Chuka-soba shop. they take lunch on a table of open-terrace.

■Town Next to Shrine and River■

You had better walk this street, feeling as if you were a little child with full curiosity. Then you would find so many things joyful. You would look up the open sky over the low rooves along the street and lok down the pavement. Behind the shops the river called Metoba- gawa runs. You would feel a sense of release. ▲An antique shop shows things in disorder. ▲Tiny restaurants get together along the path It may be interesting to lay your eyes on the paths crossing Nawate- dori. Among them I recommend to get into Nawate-Yokocho along which many tiny popular restaurants, home cook, Yakitoriya and Yakinikuya or so, are standing side by side. ▲An approaching way to the shrine crossing Nawate st. through a bridge As Nawate street is crossing the approaching way to Yohashira Jinja, it's fun walking around the precincts of it. Yohashira means, immediately the four pillars, but deeply four great Gods who formed Japan country in ancient myth. Or would you like to walk down to the shore of Metoba-gawa, for there are several stairways down there ? ▲Behind the shop-houses runs Metobagawa through. ▲The view of The shrine across the river ▲A stair way down to the riverside ▲A water-well beside Torii-gate
	A view of the street near the east end of Hitotsubashi Here is the south end of Nawate town. I recommend to walk from the norht end and walk back from Hitotsubashi. Let's walk through the street twice. You would be moved twice, discovering another aspect of the town. Over the path is crossing Nawate st., to go to Nakanohashi bridge. A shop dealing agricultural products and folkcrafts of Azumino A famous curry shop
	Over the path next is Nawate-yokocho
	The east end of Nawate Dori
	Shrine's Torii next to Koban Walking way in the precincts
	Shrine offfice One of small shrine-houses