Nagoro

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Nagoro (Japanese: 名頃), now known as Nagoro Doll Village (名頃かかしの里, Nagoro Kakashi-no-sato; lit. 'Nagaro Scarecrow village'), is a village in the Iya Valley in the city of Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture in the island of Shikoku in Japan. It is known for the large number of realistic dolls positioned throughout the village, which have made it a tourist attraction. The village is located on Route 439 in the Iya Valley, in a remote mountainous area of in Higashiiyasugeoi-chō, Miyoshi, Tokushima. It formerly had about 300 inhabitants, but the decline in Japan's population has caused that to fall to 35 by January 2015, 30 as of August 2016, , 27 by September 2019, and 25 by January 2026. In the early 2000s, Tsukimi Ayano, whose family left the area when she was a child, moved back to Nagoro to look after her father, and made a doll in his likeness that she placed in a field. She has since made more than 400, including replacements, and about 350 are in the village. Many are also likenesses of...

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