Thanks for sharing. What is surprising about Japan is that only between 15 and 20% of the land is usable for living and farming. That makes it really easy to find the quiet places in the countryside.
On my last visit this September, I borrowed a bicycle and went cycling in search of quiet places. The cities flow very rapidly into open country and every piece of land is used if it is usable. I took a few photos to capture this.
Rice paddies squeezed into the valleys
Rice harvesting under the motorways
Photos taken between Narita City and Sakae
Thanks for sharing your photos. It is pretty incredible that Japan can have the population that it has considering the amount of land that people actually live on and use here, most of which is purposed for agriculture. You're right about the countryside being quiet, and beautiful as well. I think much of the country outside of the mountains looks like this in the summer-green upon green.