Yakage Post Town

**Both inns survive, which is the point.** Honjin and wakihonjin in the same street, both Important Cultural Properties. Post towns elsewhere have one or neither. **The honjin was also a brewery.** The Ishii house made sake, so the site includes the storehouses and working rooms rather than just the rooms daimyo slept in. It is the more interesting half. **Selected in 2020, so it is still quiet.** Yakage was designated a preservation district long after the famous ones and has not yet acquired the coach traffic. **Second Sunday of November for the procession.** The town re-enacts a daimyo procession through the street, which is the one day it is busy. **Kurashiki is 30 minutes away.** Yakage makes the natural half-day counterweight to the Bikan quarter — same era, same region, a fraction of the people.