The rooms for silkworms
The rooms for silkworms share the same basic structure, each room heated by a boiler system. The ground floor was used to grow silkworms and the second floor used for cocoons.
Preservation work is being carried out on each of the silkworm research buildings. Currently, space is used by various tenants such as a farmers' market, a café and offices.

North area
In order to preserve tree varieties, many types of fruit and mulberry trees were planted on this nearly 4 hectare, 10-acre plot. Western pear, Asian pear, and apple trees are some of the trees that remain.

Minomushi guesthouse
guesthouse uses the building that was formerly an office for staff. Reservations can be made online.

kitokitoMarche
Every third Sunday from May to November, the KitoKito Marche (foods and hand crafts) uses the space of the Shinjo Ecology Garden for its outdoor market. It offers a great opportunity to get to meet new people and buy interesting handmade items.

One view of Otamaya
The Tozawa kuyo arabesque pattern crest or tono-ji chrysanthemum pattern crest are carved over the entrance to the each building. These elaborate carvings are indicated the extravagant culture of the era.

Inside the grave
As the same feature of the structures, There are renjimado(a window with vertical or horizontal wooden laths or bamboo) on the right and left side wall, the sailing is patterned in grid and the floors are constructed of stone.

Stone pagoda (gravestone inside the grave)
The gravestones for the original family members are thought to be mikageishi (granite) from Hyogo Prefecture, suggesting that there was active trade with the Kansai region by kitamae boat on the Mogami River.

Layout (from Shinjo City homepage)
Twenty-seven stone pagodas for successive Tozawa feudal lords and their families have been placed in the six otamaya buildings on the Otamaya site (Zuiunin and Keigakuji ). In the grave are the 11 feudal lords, their legal wives and their children.

Facility whole view
This unique building was designed by the architect Wajiro Kon, a well-respected professor of Science and Engineering in School of Architecture at Waseda University. The only two remaining Kon’s buildings are the one here at Yuki no Sato and one other in Fukushima Prefecture.

Overall view
Although only one building of the old facility has been preserved, there were other buildings at the facility where efforts were made to enrich the livelihoods of snowbound agricultural villagers. Among these projects, homespun wool weaving, canning of foods, and other forms of occupation took place at the facility to provide wintertime employment.

exhibition room
In addition to the first to fourth exhibition rooms, there are special exhibition rooms. Based on each theme, various information on the snow-covered area, ideas of ancestors to survive the harsh winter of snowy countries, the history of the facility so far, etc. Is on display.

Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand was a famous French architect, designer and collaborator of the French architect Le Corbusier. She visited Shinjo as one of the stops on her trip around Tohoku in 1940. Lounge chairs and tables were made under her guidance. (These are currently stored at the Prefectural Museum in Yamagata City.)

Building whole view
The Yahagi house was relocated from Hagino, west of its current location.

layout drawing
Entering through the tonoguchi entranceway, the maya (stable) can be seen to the left. Further inside, on the beaten earth doma floor, are the kitchen and inatsuba (rice storage area).

hearth
On the right of the upper floor is shitanoden (room for entertaining guests). On the ground floor is the ennaka, or living room, where the family altar and hearth are located.

Folk tale festival pictures
The annual Michinoku Minwa Matsuri (Michinoku Folklore Festival)