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Visiting Sake Breweries in Fushimi, Kyoto. Experiencing boating called “Jikkoku Bune” which was used as a publick transportation during the feudal era. (November 16)

Day2. After sake tasting, the participants were divided into four groups and each group visited Masuda Tokubei Shoten, Gekkeikan Okura Memorial Museum, Matsumoto Shuzo and Saito Shuzo.

Toward the evening the air has become chilly and keen. The participants wrapped in their coats and scarves experienced boating on “Jikkokubune”, pleasure boat along the Fushimi Waterway.
The boat shuttles between Gekkeikan Okura Memorial Museum and Misu Lock Gate Museum passing several sake breweries and a historic spot Teradaya Inn.
The waterway used to be a moat around Fushimi Momoyama Castle. “Jikkokubune” carried people along the Yodo River and the Uji River during the Edo period when transportation by land was not developed.

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Misu Lock Gate

It was built for boats to sail between the Uji River and the Yodo River whose water levels are different.


In 1999 “Jikkokubune” revived as pleasure boats in memory of the 400th anniversary of the opening of Fushimi Port.

The boatman explained how hard it was to sail in the past and why the boat has a flat bottom.

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Pocket body warmers (Kairo) were important for the participants because it was getting quite chilly in the evening.

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