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In Minachi, a small community beside the Yomura River, you can find the "Minachi Ikimono Fureai Center", where you can interact with the wildlife of the area. The center has observation galleries and specimen rooms, and provides valuable background information for enjoyable field trips to deep rice paddies, or fuketa. These rice paddies are kept wet all year round by the clear water gushing forth from the surrounding mountains and forests. As part of a natural observation park, the paddies have observation huts and recreation trails. As well as the increasingly rare Japanese diving beetles, giant water bugs and whirligig beetles, dozens of kinds of dragonfly live here, including Japan's smallest, the "haccho dragonfly", which is only about 3cm in length. In Minachi you have the chance to get a close-up look at the life of these aquatic creatures.
Hongu: Nature
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