Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable)

The Stable on the Passage North of the House

The Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) (国見ふるさと展示館休憩所（旧有永邸馬屋）) is the stable of a village headman's estate of the mid-Meiji era in Kibe, Kunimi-machi, Kunisaki City, Oita Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on December 4, 2000 (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It is also referred to as the Former Arinaga Residence Stable (旧有永邸馬屋, Kyū Arinaga-tei Umaya).

The Agency records a 2-storey timber building with a tiled roof and a building area of 81 square metres, registered as contributing to the historic landscape of the country; registration number 44-0049.

According to the Agency, it stands north of the main house and faces south across the passage that runs from the side gate to the east gate with its stone posts. It now serves as the rest house of the Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall.

A Long Gabled Building with Open Eaves

The Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) is a long building under a gabled roof (Kirizuma-zukuri) of interlocking pantiles, its ridge running east to west, with open earth-floored eaves (Tsuchibisashi) on the south and west sides (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The register records it as a 2-storey timber structure.

Open here means no walls: along the passage on the south side and in front of the west gable, a sheltered strip of earth floor runs under the eaves.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered the Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) as a building that contributes to the historic landscape of the country. A mid-Meiji building facing the passage on the north side of the estate, it completes the headman's compound with the main house, detached house and storehouse.

The registration entry describes the converted building as still long and gabled with open eaves on 2 sides, so the stable has changed its use but kept its outward form.

Toilets, a Shop and a Restaurant

The Agency records that the Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) has been converted and put to active use: toilets at the west end, a shop for local products in the middle and a restaurant at the east end.

The official Oita tourism site lists a restaurant, Shiroyamatei, and a produce stall in a separate building on the grounds, which matches the converted stable; Shiroyamatei has a wheelchair-accessible toilet (barrier-free guide).

What to Look For

View the Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) from the passage between it and the main house, where the long gabled roof and the open eaves line the way from the side gate to the east gate.

Walk east along the passage to the stone-posted east gate (Agency for Cultural Affairs), noticing how the stable opens onto it.

Visiting

The Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall Rest House (Former Arinaga Residence Stable) is used as a rest house, with the shop in the middle and the restaurant at the east end (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official notice gives their hours or says whether the exhibition hall's admission fee applies.

Opening days and driving directions for the exhibition hall are on the overview page for the Kunimi Furusato Exhibition Hall (Former Arinaga Residence).