Otaue Rice Planting Festival 2025

I like traditions that are carefully kept in Japan.

Planting by hand is hard work! Living in Niigata, I've had the opportunity to try it, and I can only think about how thankful I'd be for modern machinery if I was in the farming industry! It certainly gives you a whole new appreciation for rice!

This looks so exciting!

my native place is popular paddy / rice planting area. We like to do our tradition job. it is still going on in my village. i am in service, but my relatives are still doing this job.as shown in picture,we are rooting out the paddy plant in pre prepared land in same manner shown shown in this picture. one difference I observed here the people doing planting in this picture here and there but we are planting rice in systematic row or columns. all workmen start from one end and go to another end in same manner. thanks for sharing this festival

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