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Water-filled rice terraces stepping down a valley below forested mountains

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Hiroshima, in the Chugoku region. Producers are still being researched.

Regional context image (photographed in an unrecorded location)Photo: ASAKAWA KOHJI / Public domain

REGIONAL CONTEXT

The calm of San'yo, the depth of San'in.

Five prefectures split by the Chugoku Mountains into San'yo on the Seto Inland Sea and San'in on the Sea of Japan — a calm inland sea on one side, mountain basins on the other.

HokkaidoAomoriIwateMiyagiAkitaYamagataFukushimaIbarakiTochigiGunmaSaitamaChibaTokyoKanagawaNiigataToyamaIshikawaFukuiYamanashiNaganoGifuShizuokaAichiMieShigaKyotoOsakaHyogoNaraWakayamaTottoriShimaneOkayamaHiroshimaYamaguchiTokushimaKagawaEhimeKochiFukuokaSagaNagasakiKumamotoOitaMiyazakiKagoshimaOkinawa
HIROSHIMAN 34.40°  E 132.46°

Producers here are still being researched. We do not display categories that aren't on record.

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  1. 1Rice terraces — ASAKAWA KOHJI · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons