Ikeda Pia Maru Center (Former Ikeda Jitsugyo Bank Head Office)

A Brown-Tiled Bank of 1925 in Ikeda

The Ikeda Pia Maru Center (Former Ikeda Jitsugyo Bank Head Office) (いけだピアまるセンター（旧池田実業銀行本店）) is a bank building that is both solid and modern of 1925 in Shinmachi, Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on June 9, 2004 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey reinforced-concrete building with a building area of 303 square metres; registration number 27-0291.

A Bank Faced in Brown Tile

The Ikeda Pia Maru Center is a two-storey reinforced-concrete building put up in 1925 as the head office of the Ikeda Jitsugyo Bank (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Its base is finished to look like stone, the corners and the narrow piers between the tall sash windows of both floors are faced in brown tile, and the top is treated like an architrave (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The Agency notes that it combines the solidity of a bank with a modern feel. It was designed by Ogasawara, an architect from the Railway Agency who worked in Osaka.

Why It Was Registered

The Agency registered it as a model of design.

What to Look For

Look for the brown-tiled piers, the tall windows and the architrave-like top (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Ikeda City (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It is now the city's Ikeda Pia Maru Center, and according to the city's user guide a co-working space for registered members is on the ground floor. No official information on visits to the building was found.