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About 45 minutes west of Morioka via the Shinkansen (Bullet Train), Kakunodate is an old samurai town that actually still has some of its samurai district intact. As you will see from the following pictures, many of the characteristics that we saw in the samurai houses (tatami mats, color schemes, etc) were very similar to the ryokans that we stayed at.
Kakunodate
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Part of the interior of the first Samurai house. Note the tatami mats, the sliding doors, and the alcove in the far right back of the room -- all characteristics of our rooms at the ryokans we stayed at.
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