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- Outline
We renovated 7 machiya (japanese traditional houses) around an old arcade in central Otsu, and repurposed them as scattered-hotels in the town. The 7 machiya are scattered on the old Tokai-do street and an old arcade street which is parallel to old Tokai-do street. Though vacant house have been increasing in numbers, there are still some traditional stores such as a japanese lantern store and a butcher that sells 40-yen-croquette. We are focusing on them to draw interest from tourists.The grand opening is August, 2018. A private viewing in April 2018 saw over 1,000 guests. Shiga prefecture has also announced a concept to make Otsu into the post-town that it once was, following our project. We have also been cooperating with local commercial and industrial businesses.
- Producer
Hirokazu Taniguchi, CEO, Taniguchi Corporation
- Director
Toru Iwasa, Creative director, Jiyujin. Inc
- Designer
Yoshiji Takehara, Atsushi Tamai, moo architect work shop + Toshiya Ogino Landscape Design + Junichi Nishikawa, Kaoru Azuma, ROGOBA + Minoru Fuwa + Kie Amamoto, Jiyujin. Inc
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設計は無有建築工房代表の竹原義二が担当した。
- More information
- Already in service/use
- 2018/8