Jingoro Kyoto Residence
This is one of the grandest old houses in in Imajo-juku, serving as a waki-honjin (inn for government officials) while also running a sake brewery business back in the Edo Period. This is one of the oldest traditional machiya townhouses remaining in Fukui Prefecture. Udatsu (a fire-preventive wall built to prevent fires from spreading to adjacent houses) can be found on the roof of the house, and the walls of the house were coated with plaster to prevent fires, which serves as proof of how wealthy this family was, and their efforts at disaster prevention.
Category
Japan heritage
History
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Address
福井県南越前町今庄
Access
JR今庄駅から徒歩5分/北陸自動車道今庄ICから車で10分
Telephone Number
南越前町教育委員会 0778-47-8005
Opening hours
9:00～17:00(家の内を見る場合は要予約)
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