430 m of Meiji houses with stucco firewalls: the indigo house of 1792 still stands.
For 430 metres, the main street runs between merchant houses with udatsu (side walls in white stucco that project from the roof), built to stop fire spreading from one house to the next: there are about fifty of them, and the more there were, the richer the merchant, because they were expensive. The Yoshida house, open to the public, was built in 1792 by an indigo (藍) merchant and still keeps its original appearance.
Commercial neighbourhood that grew up along the road to Kyoto, in the municipality of Mima, and prospered on the Awa indigo trade in the Edo period. The oldest documented building dates from 1707; most of the present houses are from the Meiji period. Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings since 16 December 1988, covering 5.3 hectares.
ℹ️ Public street, always accessible. Yoshida House (吉田家住宅) and Wakimachi Municipal Museum (脇町郷土資料館) open to the public with their own hours, to be checked on the official site.
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