My husband and I moved from Tokyo to Ibaraki prefecture about a year ago. The house is my parents' house, which is 90 years old. My husband has never lived in the countryside or in a traditional Japanese house before.
The house was uninhabitable until four years ago and the yard was in disrepair. I could not bring myself to abandon the house and garden, so I decided to commute here once a week from Tokyo to clean and cut the grass.
I lived in two locations for three years, and in the third year, I discovered that the house was attached to a piece of abandoned farmland. In the third year, we discovered that the house had an abandoned field attached to it, and the local agricultural committee instructed us to mow the grass on the abandoned field.
This led us to move into this house.
That was at the end of last year.
About a year has passed since then. Our life has changed.
Let me tell you about our life in the countryside.
Please enjoy the old country house and the harvest from the fields with us!
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