🇯🇵 福井県池田町美濃俣 (廃村) Minomata, Abandoned Village in Ikeda Fukui [4K]
This video documents a visit to Minomata (美濃俣), an abandoned village in Ikeda Town, Fukui Prefecture. It was filmed in June 2025 using a GoPro Hero 13.
Minomata is located upstream along the Mizuumi River (水海川) in Ikeda. In 1908 (Meiji 41), it was home to 32 households and 229 residents. Today, it is a deserted village. Although little remains of daily life, traces such as stone walls, the site of a former shrine, ruins, and a cemetery quietly speak of the lives once lived here.
At the site of Yakushi Shrine, several stone monuments and Jizo statues are enshrined. Fresh flowers had been placed at two graves higher up in the village, and the area appears to be well maintained. It seems that someone still visits and cares for this place even today.
Translation of the stone monument at 5:59
This world chases dream upon dream.
Fifty years ago, it was a peaceful hamlet of twenty-three households,
but landslides and repeated floods left only three homes within a year.
I wonder how it will change in the next fifty years.
Yet, I pray this forest remains unharmed.
April 1998, an auspicious day
(Address)
(Name), 78 years old
この映像では、福井県池田町にある廃村「美濃俣（みのまた）」を訪れた様子を記録しています。撮影は2025年6月、GoPro Hero 13を使用して行われました。
美濃俣は、池田町の水海（みずうみ）川の上流部に位置する集落で、明治41年には32戸229人が暮らしていたとされます。現在では廃村となり、人の暮らしの痕跡はほとんど失われていますが、石垣や神社跡、遺構、墓地などが、かつての生活を静かに物語っています。
薬師神社の跡地にはいくつかの石碑や地蔵が祀られていました。また、村の上にある2つの墓には花が添えられており、定期的に手入れされている様子が見られます。誰かが今もこの場所を訪れているのでしょう。
Date: 6th June 2025
Weather: 28 / 26 °C Broken clouds
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