Nakayama Rice Fields

Western Honshū


About 4km inland from the Ikeda ferry terminal are Nakayama's 'thousand rice fields'. The terraces are pretty in any season, but especially picturesque after rice planting in late April or early May, when the water-filled fields become a hillside of mirrors.


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