“Samurai village” on sale!
Marutake Sangyo Co Ltd. are putting their Sengoku village on sale on the online shopping mall operator Rakuten. Kawauchi Sengoku Mura, translated as Kawauchi warring states village, is a large samurai themed park in Kagoshima prefecture featuring various buildings and structures from feudal Japan such as an Edo era castle, a Zen garden, traditional athletic facilities, memorial halls, and samurai residences.
A visit to the village, after one hour and half driving from Kagoshima city, costs 300 yen for junior high school students and 500 yen for adults. The village boasts fully adorned interiors with valuable antiques and other traditional items. And to add some “life” to the atmosphere, Marutake have installed mannequins to display the traditional garbs, as well as other aspects of the daily life that prevailed back then. The price of the samurai village is 980,000,000 yen (roughly USD8,200,000) and it can be purchased using Visa or Mastercard from rakuten page!! …a bargain, isn’t it??
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Hey, while the weather’s nice, I’m heading down there! Try before I buy, like.
October 11th, 2006 at 4:27 pmOnce you own the village, make sure to offer a discount to all Japundit contributors and readers!
October 11th, 2006 at 8:39 pmIs it just me or does that seem really wrong. Shouldn’t that become Government property and decreed something of a national park or the like??
October 11th, 2006 at 9:36 pmWell it’s already owned by a private company, so unless the government stumps up the cash, it’s unlikely. Plus it’d take them so long to authorise the money, no seller would have the patience to sell to the government.
October 11th, 2006 at 10:46 pmI suppose that may be true. But what would a private company want with this property except maybe to use it as a retreat for its CEO’s? Its way too important (historically) to just be jet-setters getaway.. IMO anyways…
October 11th, 2006 at 11:54 pmWell, as Marutake used to generate cash from village visits, the next owner would do the same. It’s a long term investement! It’s true that it has a cultural value, but I think business is business!
October 12th, 2006 at 12:01 amYour right Kaishin your right. If it continues to be profitable, then hey everything is good. I’m sure it will be well maintained.
October 12th, 2006 at 12:07 amI wonder how long I’ll have to own it before I start to turn a profit. How many of you people have to visit and pay \500 (or perhaps a discounted \450
) before I pay back my $8.2 million?!
October 12th, 2006 at 12:27 amOK so my yen key isn’t working, it seems. Handy.
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October 12th, 2006 at 12:29 amNor that one. (Thought I’d made an amazing discovery…
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October 12th, 2006 at 12:30 am[...] Kaishin in Japundit reports that a samurai theme park is on sale now, and the price is roughly: USD$8,200,000. [...]
October 12th, 2006 at 1:54 pmOK people, as official Japundit correspondents, Mrs Overoften and I went down and checked this place out at the weekend.
Overall, it’s a disappointing experience, even for only 500yen. Billing itself as a ‘mura’ is ambitious in the extreme. It’s on a very small scale – it’s a few buildings with a small garden in a walled compound – it has a great deal less on display than most small museums, and most of the ‘priceless artefacts’ are covered in a rich layer of dust. Only two of the buildings have any rooms with reproduction interiors. The Takamori history is told with poor, rather eerie moth-eaten model displays and cheesey tape-recordings. Even the gift shop is full of the most irrelevant tat (plaster gnomes? plastic dolphins? anyone?)
It has the air of a place… that’s on sale on the internet. I just can’t imagine how they expect a prospective buyer to make a return on their money.
I decided not to buy it.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 pmOh and by the way, it turns out 川内 (which looks for all the world like Kawauchi) is actually pronounced Sendai.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:59 pmThat added a little something to navigation.