On Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture are the remains of a hilltop village known as the Gossa Kaito Iseki (Ruins) where ironware manufacturing once flourished in the late Yayoi period roughly 1,800 to 1,900 years ago. Anyone can visit this historic site to see and touch a part of Japan’s ancient past surrounded by the … Continue reading The Gossa Kaito Iseki (Ruins): Ancient Artifacts amidst Awaji’s Natural Beauty