Shukunegi

**Park above and walk down.** The lanes are too narrow for cars and the village reads correctly on foot from the top. The descent takes two minutes. **Look at the cladding.** Boards run vertically rather than horizontally so that rain sheets off rather than soaking into the joints — a wind-and-salt solution rather than a style. Several houses reuse ship timber and you can see the old fastening holes. **Sankakuya is worth the ¥300 but keeps short hours.** Weekends and holidays April to November, daily in August. Outside those, the exterior is all you get. **Taraibune at Ogi, not here.** The tub boats are a fifteen-minute drive away at Ogi port and at Yajima-Kyojima. They were working craft for gathering abalone and seaweed off the rocks, and the shallow round hull exists because it turns in its own length among reefs. **The Sado Kokubunji and the Ogi folk museum are the local pairing.** The folk museum, ten minutes away, houses a full-scale reconstructed kitamaebune ship built in the village.