Kurayoshi — Utsubuki-Tamagawa, white-storehouse neighbourhood

photo by Hiroaki Kaneko · CC BY-SA 3.0

photo by Flow in edgewise · CC BY 3.0

Along the Tamagawa, storehouses with white walls and red roof tiles: a protected district since 1998.

At the foot of Mount Utsubuki, where the castle of the same name stood in the Middle Ages, the merchant neighbourhood stretches along the Tamagawa River: earthen storehouses with white walls and roofs of red 石州瓦 tiles, small stone bridges from one bank to the other, curved bracket decorations under the eaves. It was selected as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in December 1998, and extends over parts of four historic neighbourhoods of the city.

A commercial and manufacturing town that developed from the Edo period through the Meiji and Taishō eras, today partly converted into shops, galleries and cafés in the old storehouses, starting with the ‘Akagawara 1-gō’ pavilion.

ℹ️ Public street, always open, no entrance ticket for the neighbourhood. The individual museums and shops in the converted storehouses have their own hours, to be checked with each establishment.

🚉 倉吉市役所前バス停留所 · 3 min walk

Sources: db.pref.tottori.jp · denken.gr.jp

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