Nov 3, 2008

Shichigahama continued

As we walked through some rice paddies, Ian and I found an interesting group of houses. They looked like they had been built on a hill but the sloping sides had been cut away so that they were vertical. The white house on the right had the first floor, probably just one room, at the paddy level but the rest of the house was on the hill. From what we could see, the man-made cliff around the houses had no support whatsoever. It was just hard dirt.On the other side of the island, we found an interesting empty lot. It was at the top of a hill and the lots on all four sides had been dug out down to the street level. The lot in the middle, however, was unimproved, forming a tower of dirt beside the road.

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