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- Season 15 Morioka: Slow Life, Indie Spirit
- Season 15 360 Degrees of Mt. Fuji: Hiking the Long Trail - Part 1
- Season 15 360 Degrees of Mt. Fuji: Hiking the Long Trail - Part 2
- Season 15 On the Sugar Road from Saga to Fukuoka
- Season 15 Isumi Shines as Liveable City
- Season 15 SILK Road: Threads of History from Gunma to Yokohama
- Season 15 Geto Kogen: Deep Powder Dreams
- Season 15 Akita's Festivals Light Up Long Winters
- Season 15 Tomonoura: Tradition and Community in a Historic Port
- Season 15 Okinawa: Whispers of the Ryukyu Kingdom
- Season 15 Taketa: Onsen Bathing Old and New
- Season 15 With Isabella Bird — Part 4: On the Road to Akita
- Season 15 Okayama: Divine Beings Up Close
- Season 15 Ogaki: The City of Water
- Season 15 Yamagata: Heartland of Wood Architecture
- Season 15 Shodoshima: Island of Discoveries
- Season 15 Deep Dive in Sugashima: The Island of Women Fishers
- Season 15 NISEKO IN SUMMER: Natural Fun in the Great Outdoors
- Season 15 Kumano Kodo: Fast Hiking to Nirvana
- Season 15 Nagasaki's Obon: A Time for Remembrance
- Season 15 With Isabella Bird — Part 5: On the Road to Aomori
- Season 15 Osaka: OSAKA HEART AND SOUL
- Season 15 Tokushima: Heartland of Fermentation
- Season 15 OITA Kunisaki Peninsula: A Land of Buddhas and Gods
- Season 15 Another Kobe: A Thatched Roof Village
- Season 15 Fukushima: Trekking with Volcanoes & Hot Springs
- Season 15 Ise-Shima: Timeless World of Pearls
Journeys in Japan - Season 15 Episode 9 Tomonoura: Tradition and Community in a Historic Port
9.00 28 minutes Tomonoura is a port town on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, in Hiroshima Prefecture. It occupies an important location because this is the point where the tides from each end of the Inland Sea meet. In the old days, ships had to wait here until the ebb tide, before continuing their journeys. For that reason it became known as "the port for awaiting the tide" and was even mentioned in the Manyoshu, a collection of Japanese poems collated some 1,200 years ago. Tom Miyagawa Coulton is a photographer who lives on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Tom explores the historic town of Tomonoura and discovers the town's centuries-old tradition of forging steel. He also meets the local people who have protected this town and kept their community ties with love and care.
