Wada Family Residence Main House

A Kyoto Townhouse Front of the Early Meiji Era

The Wada Family Residence Main House (和田家住宅主屋) is a townhouse that keeps the traditional Kyoto street front, with projecting and open lattices and a low upper storey of the early Meiji era in Higashiwakamatsucho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on March 7, 2008 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a single-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 98 square metres; registration number 26-0277.

A Kyoto Townhouse Front

The main house of the Wada residence, from the early Meiji era, faces west onto Shinmachi-dori in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Behind a front block 4 bays by 2, a small courtyard garden and an entrance lead to a gabled kitchen wing and a lean-to reception room.

On Shinmachi-dori the ground floor has a projecting lattice on the north and an open lattice on the south, and the low upper storey, the tsushi, is fitted with fine lattices. It keeps the traditional street front of a Kyoto townhouse (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

At the main house, look for the street front on Shinmachi-dori, with projecting and open lattices below and fine lattices in the low upper storey (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The owner of the Wada residence is not listed in the Agency record. It is a private house, and no official information on public access was found. The main house and storehouse are introduced together on the Wada Family Residence (Shimogyo, Kyoto) page.