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Extract from the Tsuwano Travel Guides:
Some 80km east of Hagi, in the neighbouring prefecture of Shimane-ken, is the older and even more picturesque castle town of
TSUWANO
. Nestling in the shadow of the 908-metre-high extinct volcano,
Aono-yama
, around which mists swirl moodily each autumn, this is yet another small town that touts itself as a "Little Kyoto" and, for once, there really is an air of courtly affluence along the tourist-jammed streets.
Tonomachi
, the well-preserved central area of
samurai
houses, with their distinctive cross-hatched black-and-white plaster walls, is famous for it... read the whole Tsuwano Travel Guides...
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