There’s a building standing on top of a 1.20-meter high stone wall. What’s it doing there? There’s an old saying in Ozu that goes, “The more important something is, the higher up it goes.” Major flooding of the Hijikawa River in 1938 and 1945 left water levels up to an adult's waist, so valuable raw materials such as wax were stored on top of stone walls to protect them. Floods are rare these days, but you can still find stone walls with buildings on top. One can only imagine what treasured possessions were once stored there.