Many small rice terrace that overlapsThe rice terrace spreads on a slight slope. Maruyama area in Kiwa-cho. Each rice field is extremely small and over 1300 fields are overlapping each other and covers the whole mountain. This view is called ”Maruyama Senmaida” and was selected as one of the One Hundred Rice Terrace of Japan. |
Established protection regulation for rice terraceHowever after the years gone by and by the end of Showa Era, the number of the rice fields declined to 530 due to the government’s crop conversion policy and depopulation of the town. So the movement to protect rice terrace which is the typical landscape of Maruyama area started. |
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- Maruyama Area Kiwa-cho, Kumano, Mie Prefecture