Restaurant Noa Noa (Former Western-Style House of the Hashimoto Kansetsu Residence)

A Spanish-Style House with Japanese Touches

The Restaurant Noa Noa (Former Western-Style House of the Hashimoto Kansetsu Residence) (レストラン・ノアノア（旧橋本関雪邸洋館）) is a Spanish-style house on the Shirakawa stream of around 1929 in Jodoji Ishibashicho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on November 10, 2005 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey reinforced-concrete building with a tiled roof and a building area of 63 square metres; registration number 26-0201.

A Spanish Style with Japanese Touches

Restaurant Noa Noa is the Western-style house of the former residence of the painter Hashimoto Kansetsu, dated to around 1929 (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It faces north on a site along the Shirakawa stream, which runs north to south east of Yoshidayama hill.

It is a two-storey reinforced-concrete building finished in mortar (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Based on the Spanish style, it adds Japanese touches such as rafter shapes formed on the entrance canopy, and shows one current in the design of Western-style houses of the early Showa period.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the Spanish-style front and the rafter shapes on the entrance canopy (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The owner is not listed in the Agency record. No official information on the restaurant's opening was found.