Nambu-tekki ironware, one of the shoots I did in Northern Japan last week.
Hot Hot Hot. I decided that August is NOT the ideal month to be taking photos of an iron foundry. I can’t imagine how the people who work there cope. Apart from anything they have to keep as much skin covered as possible to avoid being burnt by splashing iron.
Restaurants around the foundries serve extra salty ramen noodles to make up for all that lost sweat.