Fields of Rice in Kita-Ikoma

Japan is not all neon lights, bustling restaurants and temples. There are also zones devoted to rice for which seem to have spent many years. If not because fewer and fewer spaces are left for crops to survive. These are in the northern town of Ikoma (Kita-Ikoma) very close to the train station Gakken Kita Ikoma. I go through there every week and it is interesting to see the process.