I help my sensei and lab colleague doing his self-help housing reconstruction survey on Kumamoto Earthquake.Kumamoto earthquake occurred just last year (2016) and I check by myself the housing reconstruction development in this 1 year. So far I found one interesting activity by Kumamoto people.
kumamoto is mountainous area, very green and bright sky
While in school I learned most about Hanshin Awaji Earthquake (1995) and Great East Japan Earthquake (2011), most of Japanese has a strong trust to government that government will help them. They had relied on the temporary housing and moved to permanent residence provided by apartment.
Kumamoto person is quite different (lol every region I think it has different people and characteristic). Besides relied to government help, some of them just start self-help making their house again by themselves. They purchased a container house and put it in their land, and started to demolish the house debris and constructed new house.
And our survey is that! searching people who do the self-help reconstruction. How to do this survey is, we prepare a very detailed map about one area and check every single house whether they start constructed house by themselves and purchasing container as temporary housing. It seems easy, but very though at the field because the area is Kumamoto rural mountainous area. Which mean every house has large field and to get into each other house take a long way go up and go down mountain. And we cannot miss one or two home, every home must be checked.
I cannot show the container house and house reconstruction in the survey because I think it is count as private property. But instead I can show you temporary house provided from government.
This is my first time seeing the temporary houses provided by government, I only see this from internet or book before. The design is rather same with 1995 temporary house. Can’t understand why only slight design improvement hahaha, maybe the material is now different?? Maybe.
Some of temporary house resident modify their entrance door as shown below, pretty cool. To put shoes and mailbox.
The most fascinated event for me in Kumamoto is the food. Kyushu food is very delicious!!!!
I try every type of kumamoto food: sake, fruit (watermelon), vegetables (tomato) and meat, especially horse meat is very good. And I eat horse meat for my first time. Dinner contained everything with horse, horse bacon salad, horse sushi, horse katsu, horse sashimi, horse yakiniku, horse .. etc
Memorable dinner for me.
horse yakiniku with kumamon decoration, very oishii!!!!
Also I eat unforgettable lunch here, osoba.
This soba served on a baked plate (like a roof tile). The noodle colour is green, coming from the green tea in kumamoto. Crispy noodle put into black soyu sauce is so enak. OMG. I am so hungry by seeing this photos.
The soba mise also provided very peaceful scenery, I am very awe by this situation.
And last but not least, the most famous from Kumamoto is their black bear mascot, KUMAMON.
I was like buying every piece of kumamon because they were extreme kawaii.
No regret buying them all hahahaha
Then the survey trip finished and I went back Osaka. I surely happy if I can come back again to Kumamoto 🙂
giggling kumamon kun, kawaiiiiiii..
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