Overlooking a sheer 110-meter drop into Gaikotsu Bay, the multi-tiered village of Tanbogakure is built on a slope that opens up into a vast array of paddy fields at its base. On the first tier, one can find the homely residential district, on the second the austere military district and on the third, overlooking the land to the south and the sea to the north, the imposing Okada castle at its apex. Taken as a whole, the village appears to be a cobbled-together afterthought forced to the northern coast of Rice Country in favor of the vast cash crop that gives the land its name.