This house is a two wooden house which has low second floor and has the front door parallel to ridge position. This out wall of first floor is covered in paneling. The lattice windows and log stockades remind us of the old town houses at Okura. An old ware house for rice was at the back of premises with buildings. This is a merchant house built before 1850 and they sold rice tenant farmers made and others.
Akashi heritage-map “Okura” 2014
It still remains along the Saigoku Kaid? (Western National Highway).
