Walk along Nakamachi Street 3







■ほかのまちあるきサイト■ 信州の旅と街あるき小布施まちあるき別所温泉・塩田平ホーム別所温泉まちあるき上田まちあるき小諸まちあるき

Look For the Old

  The elegant and stylish taste of the street is caused by Japanese architectural mode of the mud-walled wrehouse, Kurazukuri-Machiya in Japanese. The town-houses standing side by side in the traditional style bring such an atomosphere.
  The mud-walled warehouse plastered in white forms a peculiar harmony with the contemporary building. Of course it is most suitable to the wooden house in Japanese.
  Then we would look for the houses having the old Japanese tase, walking along the street.

■Mixtrure of The Old and the New■

◆History of Shops and Houses◆ As traditional shop-houses have been restored or rebuilt, it is not rare that the contemporary business by young people is in a old shop-house. It's characteristic to Nakamachi town. However as to the oldness of shop, Footwear shop Yaguchi-Honten is over 370 years since its foundation. So to speak, it has Matsumoto history as a whole on its back. Midori Pharmacy was fouded in Taisho period, in 1920s. Its house was built in the early Showa period. Then many architects oriented to European with romanticism. ◆Functioning As Museum of History and folklore◆ ▲Museum of weighting instruments ▼Sign bord like vane Most towns conserving the traditional view have the intelligence to install the museum- functuion showing its history and folklore into its town-houses. In Nakamachi town some shops driving business display the folklore materials in it or has changed themselves into the museums of their history and folklore after got out of business to display ex-commodities. Thus you would feel as if you had studied in a large museum, after visiting many shops in the town. ◆The Old is Stylish◆ At last I woalked around there to look for the old-stylish town-houses. I find that there are more shop- warephouses whose white walls has gotten sooty on the eastern part of the town, paying attention to the wall color. They must be the older, owing to only the outeard. ▲Chikiriya, a shop dealing china and folk-handcrafts
	Yaguchi-Honten, a footwear shop is about 370 year old since founded ! Pharmacy Midori was founded about a century ago. A name plate, 「寒山」Kanzan, of the furniture shop is stylish A show window of Museum of Weighting Instruments, Matsumoto City It was a shop dealing the weighting instruments since 1860s until 1990s. The city bought its warehouse to keep the machines and instruments and to display them. Chikufudo, a Japanese sweets shop, has been leading town-forming in Obuse town. Its shop-house was rebuilt in the traditional architecture to make a harmony with the townscape. It shows the folklore marterials and handcrafts in the house. It is modesty but imopress us its unique resence. An accessory shop Dekobokodo, the shop name means the bumpy. Old-stylish shop-house of Hinoden An earthware shop Tohenboku The oldness of its house is glimmering like a pottery.