英語版のサイトに "Chiran Historical District" のページをアップロードしました：
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/index.html
知覧は薩摩半島の南部にある城下町です。
当時の武家屋敷の佇まいが今に残り、重要伝統的建造物群保存地区に指定されています。
"Chiran Historical District" のページへどうぞ：
http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/TravelDestinations/Kyushu/Chiran_E.html
日本版の知覧重伝建地区の散策記は下記です：
http://shanehsmt.html.xdomain.jp/Travel/Japan/Kyushu/Chiran.html
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My English site:
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Chiran is located approximately 25 kilometers south-southwest from Kagoshima City.
During the Edo Age (1603-1868) , SATA-SHIMAZU Clan governed Chiran Area.
SATA-SHIMAZU Clan built Kikko Castle at the east side of Chiran and retainers' residences were located to the west side of the castle. Retainers' residences and gardens remain as "Chiran Samurai Residence".
If you take out a bus from Kagoshima-Chuo Station at Nakagori Bus stop, you will cross over the Fumoto River.
The Historical district in Chiran is located to the south of the main street.
Clipped hedges continue on stone walls on both sides of the street.
This view looks like as if you are in a garden and the atmosphere is as if you are in the Edo Age.
Seven gardens of these residences are open to the public.
The gardens are well maintained and beautiful.
The atmosphere of these gardens is very calm and you will be refreshed.
In the Chiran Historical District, unfortunately many house buildings are rebuilt.
In the middle of the historical district, a thatched roofed house is located.
This house consists of two house-buildings and these two house-buildings are connected.
If you walk the street which is located to the south of the historical district, you will see the thatched roofed house from the back yard.
This was very nostalgic view for me.
Chiran Historical District is designated as a "Conservation District of Traditional Buildings".
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