The Japanese Village that Time Forgot: Ozuchi, Ishikawa, Japan

We recently visited this Kaga government level preserved/protected old village in the mountains of Ishikawa - it's called Ozuchi-machi. It's truly a place that time has forgotten. It's not even 20Km from the nearest major highway and a population center of nearly 100,000 people, but is hidden away up in the mountains and is almost completely deserted, EXCEPT for ONE man who was born and grew up in this village, but then left for many years, and then decided to come back to live there and farm his family's land - he even still makes charcoal (the old-fashioned way!), which is what this village used to do 100 years ago. Only a couple weeks later we were invited back to Ozuchi for a BBQ lunch with one of the local families who still lives here in the summer months (winters are very, very hard here). It was a truly memorable experience! #foreignerinjapan , #ishikawa , #kominka , #yamanaka , #japan , #ruraljapan , #japaneseculture , #bear , #bears , #japanlife , #japantravel , #japanesefood
Chapters
00:00 Ozuchi Arrival and Intro
00:53 Tour of Former Sora Family House
04:30 Beware of the Teddy Bears!
04:45 Visit to Ozuchi Natural Spring
06:05 Ozuchi Terraced Rice Fields
07:34 Lunch with Ozuchi Friends
09:07 Our Fresh River Trout - Cooked!
10:08 Our Neighbor Hana-san!
15:29 Ozuchi Jinja Walk-Round
17:57 Real Ozuchi Wasabi
20:27 Kasumi Goes Hiking
20:37 Daddy Follows! But Watch Out for Bears!
21:50 Birds-Eye View of Ozuchi
22:05 Daddy Gets Lost
23:56 Kasumi Comes to the Rescue
24:52 Seriously - Watch Out for the Bears!!
26:26 Kasumi Leads Us Home
27:43 Outro & Subscribe