Former House of the Asakura Family

Walking distance from Daikanyama Station, Tokyo, JAPAN
Important Cultural Property / Nationally Designated / Buildings

(Photo of Former House of Asakura Family by (c) TeaTimeTokyo)

Former House of the Asakura Family is one of the remaining houses built before the Great Kanto Earthquake in the central Tokyo district. It was completed in 1919.

Each room having a different style of design and its circuit style garden designed alongside the cliff-line of the land, it is nationally designated as an Important Cultural Property. It was built in the boundary of the residential area which was expanding rapidly at the time, and is considered a material of historic importance in Japanese house design.

(Photo of Stone Lantern by (c) TeaTimeTokyo)

(Photo of the inside by (c) TeaTimeTokyo)

(Photo of the western-style room by (c) TeaTimeTokyo)

Official Visitor's Guide
https://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/est/pdf/asakura_eng2.pdf

Official Website (in Japanese only)
https://www.city.shibuya.tokyo.jp/est/asakura.html