The rule that all Japanese break (5 photos)

In the Japanese city of Shimabara, the water in the drainage canals on all the streets is so clean that everyone's favorite fish in the country - koi carp - was placed there. And they have lived here for more than forty years and have become a major tourist attraction.





Even local kids sit here for twenty minutes and look at the fish. And you don’t need to have them at home!

In other cities, it will not be possible to simply place carp in street ditches, even if they are beautifully decorated. In Shimabara alone, 60 purest water sources come out of the ground, which are carefully organized into drainage ditches.

So the water in the trenches is always fresh and clean, the carp have been doing just fine for many years. If only it weren't for one thing.

The Japanese are happy with a stake on their heads



It's beautiful, and there are so many of them. Do you agree?

Locals and tourists feed them all the time! You've probably seen signs in zoos that say you can't feed the animals. This makes them fat, and the food may not be the most suitable.

But the Japanese continue to feed the fish again and again, and they still won’t tell anyone anything!

“DO NOT FEED THE FISH” signs are posted everywhere. Although it would have been better to install a vending machine selling specialized food, because the main rule is: “If you can’t overcome chaos, lead it.”





Right in the city you can walk along bridges on which carps swim. They are considered to bring good luck

Moreover, the Japanese simply adore them for their vending machines.

Sad payment for fish in the canals

Fish right in the city canals! Those same colored carp! This is the very embodiment of the Japanese spirit in the city of Shimabara.

There's actually more to it than meets the eye, and that's very sad. Clean water began to come out of the ground when the city in 1792 suffered a disaster that every Japanese has long feared - a tsunami.



Carps swim along the houses, what a beauty

It was accompanied by an earthquake and killed 15 thousand people, and when people returned to the destroyed houses, they saw springs gushing right next to them. This is how nature paid for all the grief that it brought to the local residents.

But carp began to be raised in canals only in 1978. First, a couple of dozen fish were released into the largest 100-meter canal for testing.

They took root well, and after a couple of years the authorities began to resettle the carp along other canals in the city.



And also as a joke, the Japanese leave dirty plates in the canal so that the fish can clean it with their mouths. Now this is hooliganism

There is also such a problem that the Koi carp breed itself is not small, it can grow up to 70 centimeters in length. And it happens that the former home channel becomes cramped for a fat carp (who fed it, you ask?). And he has to look for a new channel and perform a “carp rotation” so that everyone fits harmoniously.

Who could live in the drainage canals of your city? About twenty years ago, in our suburbs, frogs lived happily and felt great. True, they jumped out onto the road. But we didn’t feed them!