なかおく・Nakaoku
Go further down the same road as Setodanchi and Sogio and the the entrance to Nakaoku will be on your left. As is true for Setodanchi and Sogio, the Nakaoku tributary that this road runs along offers some of the best fishing and swimming holes in the village.
Nakaoku proper is high up on a hill and is a hamlet that is reminiscent of a small mountain hamlets of the Annapurna region of Nepal. There are many farmers here and that live here and are undeterred by the inconveniences of living further out in the countryside are clearly a special type of people that love living where the air is more rarified and put a high priority on purity and living close to nature. Take a walk around this hamlet and you’ll be sure to strike up interesting conversations with the locals.
