Nakamuraya Ryokan Main Building

A Three-Storey Storehouse Inn in Iizaka

The Nakamuraya Ryokan Main Building (なかむらや旅館本館) is a hot-spring inn of the late Edo period (1830 to 1867) in Iizakamachi, Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on April 21, 1998 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a three-storey storehouse-style building with a tiled roof, covering 209 square metres; registration number 07-0009.

The Main Building, Said to Date from the Founding

Nakamuraya Ryokan is said to have been an inn founded in the Edo period that the present owners' ancestors bought and kept running (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The main building is said to date from the founding and has storehouse-style outer walls.

The exterior has later alterations, but its heavy form, with the third floor smaller than the two below to give a sense of stability, is unusual and stands out in the town (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a building that would not be easy to reproduce, a storehouse-style inn of unusual form with a smaller third floor.

What to Look For

Look for the third floor set smaller than the two below and the heavy storehouse-style walls (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

A Fukushima City plan lists it among the registered cultural properties within a kilometre of Iizaka Onsen Station. No official information on the inn's business was found.