Traditional narrow street in Kurashiki

There are not many better places to enjoy a traditional Japanese narrow street than the Bikan Historical Quarter, in Kurashiki. On the street photographed here, preserved as it was during the Edo Period, only the distant pole and the gas meter are reminding of the 21st century...

Once, many neighborhoods in the Japanese cities were that narrow, because there were no carriages and no rickshaws in the medieval Japan. The only "vehicles" were palanquins (kago and norimono), which were not much wider than a man...