Sama House

One Row House, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2021

Sama House (狹間ハウス, Hazama House) stands at 92-3 Amijima-cho and adjoining lots, Miyakojima ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, a Showa-period building entered on the register of tangible cultural properties on 24 June 2021. It is a registered property rather than a designated one.

The quantity is one building.

The structure is timber above and reinforced concrete below: 2 storeys of timber over one basement storey of concrete, tiled, with a floor area of 323 square metres. The date field reads early Showa and the year field 1932.

Concrete Below, Timber Above

Within one building, the structure changes from storey to storey.

The Agency records that, following the slope, the basement is of reinforced concrete and the two storeys above it are of timber.

One storey below in concrete, two above in timber. The record of construction names both in turn.

At Rokuzankan, brick is laid over reinforced concrete. There it is the surface that differs.

The Takanawaso storehouse is of reinforced concrete and yet called a storehouse in the earthen tradition. There the name runs apart from the material.

Here the structure itself changes between levels. To build on a slope, the lower part takes the stronger material.

Six Dwellings Counted as One Building

Six homes are treated as a single building.

The Agency records a row house of 6 dwellings standing on sloping ground inside a river embankment. The 6 run side by side.

The quantity is nonetheless one. Six doors, and still one building in the count.

At Hayabusa Station, a station building and a platform, things of different kinds, were gathered into one.

Here 6 of the same thing stand in a row and make one. The gathering runs the other way.

Each dwelling is arranged on more than one level: services below, kitchen and the like on the ground floor, Western-style rooms above.

Fire Walls Rising Above the Roof

The walls between dwellings carry on up past the roof.

The Agency closes that the fire walls dividing the dwellings project above the roof, and that the resulting front, 30 metres from north to south, is striking in its singularity.

A party wall separates one dwelling from the next. Rising above the roof, it shows the 6 divisions from outside.

Such a wall keeps fire from passing to the next house. Along 30 metres, the walls stand one after another.

At Takegawara Onsen, the outward form is called full of variety: its parts differ one from another.

Here it is repetition of one form that makes the front. The record calls it striking in its singularity. As a way of stating value this is the twenty-first met.

Visiting

The building stands at 92-3 Amijima-cho and adjoining lots, Miyakojima ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture.

The Agency records it on sloping ground inside a river embankment: on the landward side of the bank.

The floor area of 323 square metres covers all 6 dwellings; one dwelling comes to a sixth of that.

Registered on 24 June 2021, it is the most recent here after the two of 2025, the Old University Bath and the former bank branch at Neu.

A company owns the building, so opening and terms follow the owner's arrangements. Check before travelling.