Here is a very small village Sugihara Miyagawa in Hida city, Gifu prefecture which is in the middle of Honsyu. Only 50 people live in this area.

This time, we visited there to go fishing and stay at the local people's house.

It takes about 5-6 hours from Tokyo by bus. You can also visit by train.

In this area, you can get Ayu (sweetfish) from July to September.

These days it is difficult to get the natural Ayu but here we can do that!

The local people take the young of Ayu from the Lake Biwa which is the biggest one in Japan and disseminate to this river in spring and start to hook in July.

There are some professional fishermen and they helped us to get Ayu.

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