This is an open place belonging to the former Kurokawa Primary School. This school was closed and merged with Fukushima Primary School in 1997. The campus is used as a common place to experience Kiso's life, such as local food making event, and also used to provide a place for children for playing.
There are traditional type weaving machines for people who want to experience weaving.
The goods made by these machines.
The game room for children. Many toys in this room are made by wood.
The stairway, corridor, and the school name board.
The arithmetic textbook used before.
They were used to provide lunch for schoolchildren.
The grain was taken in 1943. People in Kiso eat this grain during the period of food shortage.
This is the school schedule of the last month (March in 1997).Low birthrate in Japan has progressed and that led to the decrease of schoolchildren, especially in rural area, where the young have worked away from home. Many of them went to Tokyo or Osaka. One of the reasons that they left is the shortage of employment in rural area. On the other hand, many new comers are moving to rural area, they pursue the lifestyle of material self-sufficiency and mental affluence.
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