approx. 200 people | early 1800s
Kurodoro (黒泥) is a small village in south-western Japan. Its climate is warm and humid, with frequent downfall and winds.
Kurodoro is the birthplace of Myouka and Ijino, and this is where Machita lives since the early 90s.
Kurodoro is located next to a lake that is connected to the ocean by a strait and has a port to make use of it. The village is surrounded by wooded mountains, with a single road that cuts through the mountains in a tunnel.
Kurodoro saw a construction of a train station connected to a railway in the postwar period, which turned the village into a bustling transport interchange.
Kurodoro port was rendered obsolete in the late 80s due to the rapidly developing infrastructure of the nation as a whole, severely damaging the prosperity of the village.
Kurodoro train station was equipped with a PHS base station by KKGKnet in the middle 90s, shortly before being closed together with the entire railway, leaving the road as the only official means of accessing the village.
Kurodoro is divided into two parts: the populated part and the abandoned part, both vaguely linearly shaped and around 500 m in length each.
Kurodoro's populated part is where the official populace of the village lives, and it is where Myouka's shrine is. The road connects to this part of the village.
Kurodoro's abandoned part is full of empty decaying houses, and it is where the abandoned train station is, on the opposite end from the populated part.
Kurodoro traditions include the Air Purification and the Water Purification.
Kurodoro food supply consists of homegrown rice, homecaught fish and occasional imports from neighboring settlements.