Choseikan Main Building

The Main Building of a Hot Spring Inn

The Choseikan Main Building (潮生館本館) is an inn building of 1939 in Shida, Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on November 8, 2004 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey timber building of 198 square metres with a tiled roof; registration number 22-0093.

The Inn That Founded Shida Onsen

The Choseikan Main Building is the main block of the inn that laid the foundations of Shida Onsen (Agency for Cultural Affairs). It is two storeys, hip-and-gable and roofed in pantiles, with a hip-and-gable entrance porch projecting at the west end of the south front.

The ground floor holds a large board-floored hall and the front desk, and upstairs an L-shaped corridor along the south and west sides serves the guest rooms (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The Kobaiso pavilion of 1933 stands by the pond to the north-west.

Why It Was Registered

It was registered as a model of form (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Each guest room is finished with curved and naturally twisted timbers, full of rustic charm.

What to Look For

Look for the hip-and-gable entrance porch at the west end of the south front and the curved and twisted timbers used in the guest rooms (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

The Agency's database does not list the owner, and no official information on current business or visiting was found.