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"Asada-ame"
Photograph at: Kinomoto town, Shiga Pref., Japan
In front of the oldest pharmacy in Japan
Kinomoto town is the hometown of my father, and is the old post town of "Hokuriku route".
These are the signboards of drugs which had been sold about 100 years ago. "Honjin Pharmacy" is the pharmacy whose resistered number is "1". So that is the oldest pharmacy in Japan.