Old Musashi Elementary School to Shidare Sakura

It's been closed for 50 years.

Original Text

　When I stayed at Yusenji Onsen, I visited it as one of the nearby stop-by spots. After running up the mountain road in front of the inn Totsugawaso for 2km, there was a mountain village "Totsugawa Musashi no Sato". The purpose was to visit the graves of Masakatsu Kusunoki and Nobumori Sakuma, but the parking lot was the former Musashi Elementary School. It is a wooden school building with an atmosphere that looks like you have traveled back in time in the Showa era. Although it was closed in 1945, it became an intangible cultural property of the village and became important as a local border museum ...

A beautiful wooden school building like a movie stage. Like Totoro's school?

Original Text

It is a very well-preserved and splendid wooden former school building, located in a small village of about 20 〜 30 people in the Musashino district of Totsugawa Village. The school was closed in 1969, but it is now registered as a tangible cultural property of Totsugawa Village. I think this school building is a mid-Showa 〜 building, but is it only me who feels like a school where Satsuki comes out in Totoro attends? It is said that you can visit the school building, but 4 〜 November 2nd and 4th ...