My hometown is Kurobane, Tochigi. Kurobane is located in Nasu, famous for sightseeing and an Imperial villa. It is about 1.5 hours from Utsunomiya (the prefectural capital of Tochigi) by car, and about twenty minutes from Nasu-Shiobara station by car. Nakagawa flows across the west part of Kurobane, and you can fish Ayu in the river. Famous products are green tea, rice, Ayu, indigo-dyeing, etc. The population of Kurobane is about 16,000. There are many rice fields, farms and mountains, so the scenery of there is very calm and beautiful.
The old days, the Toya railway ran from Nishi-Nasuno station to Kurobane, and Kurobane prospered by forestry. But the progress of motorization forced the railway into abolition, and forestry declined by the inflow of foreign lumber. Although there were the times when energy was lost, now Kurobane took back energy by the town development projects.
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daisukemogi2008
// May 29, 2008 at 5:37 am
I have been to Nasu for sightseeing some times. I remember that there is beautiful nature. I can imagine there is beautiful nature at Kurobane, too. I want to go to Kurobane! Especially I’m interested in indigo-dyeing.
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spiri
// Jun 11, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Is it “Nasu” like “eggplant,” the vegetable? Your hometown sounds nice, much more rural than Tokyo. You were lucky to grow up around nature.
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asamihirai2008
// Jul 14, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I have been to Nasu for sightseeing. I think that Nasu is really beautiful and wonderful place!
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naokitsuchikane2008
// Jul 27, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I am from Ashikaga in Tochigi, located in most south in Tochigi. We lived the same prefecture but two home towns have many different points. I used to trip Nasu with family in childfood. It was nice place.
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