Mia-tachi no tabi - Day 8 - Wandering through the past

Today we explored the Historic Village of Hokkaido. It is an outdoor museum exhibiting buildings and furnishings from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. It is absolutely awesome. The park covers 50 hectors of land and has over 40 buildings. Here is my favorite building:

It is a fishermans lodge that housed 60 fishermen on the left and the owner's family on the right. Here is the entirety of the left side:

The fishermen slept along the outside and on the second level. The center was used for cooking, eating, and working.

The owner's side is about the same size, but divided into several rooms.

It was really cool to explore!

Another building was devoted to silk production and two volunteers were demonstrating the collection silk thread from the cocoons. The little white things in the bowl are cocoons and the thread is being wound around the brown device. The spool in the lower right is the product of 80 cocoons.

Here is a picture of a Japanese inn:

A clinic surgery room: 

Woodcutter's lodge:

We spent about 3.5 hours here and would have stayed longer if our feet and stomachs had been killing us. We caught a bus back to the festival to get food, which wasn't spectacular, but was at least filling. And fun to watch them make (ramen):

Then my mom went back to the hotel to recover while we went to a cat cafe to recover. No, we did not eat any cats here.

It was fun, but our cats are much better. Myra was happy to pet cats for the first time in 6 months though.

We went back the festival for a bit to hear the music, which wasn't bad, but wasn't really interesting either. So we left and went in search of a supermarket. We found the old Hokkaido Governemt building on the way:

But failed to find a supermarket. We went to a conbini instead. Then we returned to the hotel and played cards. It was fun.