It is rice planting season. Recently people have been posting their beautiful rice field sunsets. I usually shoot ocean sunsets since I can do it outside my house, but I took a drive to a very special spot tonight to get some shots for you all. Let me tell you about it. 🧵 1/4
Nagasaki prefecture is extremely hilly. I have written about the tunnels and mountaintop-to-mountaintop bridges before. Ikijima is actually home to the second largest plain in the whole prefecture! And this is on an island you can drive across in 20 mins! 2/4
Being on the ancient route connecting the Japanese archipelago to Japan, Iki is home to lots of archeological wonders. The museum here is first rate, and we have one of Japan's few Yayoi period village reconstructions. Here is a watchtower at sunset. 3/4
Here are some very special ricefields that you won't see everywhere on Instagram: red rice and black rice. These are 古代米 or ancient rice. Each year it is hand-planted in these paddies next to the Yayoi village and you can eat ancient rice bento at the restaurant nearby! 4/4
ADDENDUM: Here is me standing in the middle of a lonely rice paddy as it gets dark being eaten alive to get these shots for you! 👍
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