Suya Taihekitei

A Thatched Tea House in an Inn Garden

The Suya Taihekitei (寿屋対碧亭) is a rustic tea house of around 1931 in Awatabecho, Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on December 24, 2013 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey timber building thatched, partly tiled and copper-roofed, covering 60 square metres; registration number 18-0120.

A Tea House in the Garden of a Restaurant Inn

Suya Taihekitei is a single-storey timber tea house in the garden of a restaurant inn, under a thatched hip-and-gable roof, with a tiled four-and-a-half-mat room projecting at the south-west corner (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The core is a six-mat room with an alcove, a four-mat anteroom to the west and a two-mat room to the east with an alcove lit by a gable-shaped window, all wrapped in lean-to eaves. The four-and-a-half-mat room has windows of many shapes, a round one among them (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape, a rustic tea house of open plan.

What to Look For

Look for the thatched hip-and-gable roof and the many shapes of window, the round one in particular (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It stands in the garden of a restaurant inn, and no official information on visiting was found.