The Kayabuki Thatch Roof

 

More Fall in the City

The former residence of a wealthy family of importers, the house and gardens date from the 1920s and are now the property of Niigata City and open to the public.

More Otaru Photos

The photos show street views of my favorite city in Japan, Otaru, Hokkaido. I've been to Nara, Kyoto, Kamakura, and Hakodate, all of them better known than Otaru as cities of cultural and historical importance, but in my view none ranks with the latter in the picturesque, an aesthetic value in short supply in most of urban Japan.