around a city a little north of Omura. The city is world renowned in the pottery world for its beautiful craftsmanship of dishes and the worlds largest and second largest noborigama (built into a clay hillside) kilns (so said a guide, but upon research this may be inaccurate.)Other attractions of the walk include the beautiful scenery and the scarecrows. It's just about rice harvesting time, so the terraced rice fields were especially pretty.
Every year the residents of the city put up a row of ever-creati
ve scarecrows. The highlight last year was Michael Jackson, while this year there was everything from peeing obaasans (grandmas) to Naoto Kan, the current Prime Minister and the soccer player Keisuke Honda. 
Even Tiger Woods made an appearance.
It was a perfect Autumn day and we even got some free soup and goya (bitter squash). Overall, it was a great time and I look forward to the pottery festival in the spring.
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