After we went for lunch we went to an old house which is out of the gokusho area.

(red: old house; green: Hu-Connect)
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This house is a shop where you can buy frames. Inside it was kinda a exhibition. So you could look around that house and see very very old stuff.
The front inside of the house is divided into 3 rooms. First is the working room. Therefore it is a room which you can enter with normal shoes (no tatami). Then a second room follows. This one is hightened in comparison to the first. He have to take off your shoes before you enter it. Also in this room are no tatami mats. Behind this one another room follows. It looks more
beautiful and more expensive than the ones before. On the ground lay many tatami mats.
As you can see you can go through that room to a little garden which lays in the middle of the house.
Unfortunately a awning was on the left side...It was to protect the wood of water. Normally you can go on at the left side.
This house is 80m long and 15m wide. The owner told us that it is because of the taxes. In Japan you pay for each meter of your house which is at the street. Therefore the most houses are built like this.
The shopowner showed us also some old objects:
The dishes for example are from the 50s and the pogo stick is even older!
Then he showed us more. The house was so old that is suffered by the world wars. There is a hole in the wall where you can look to the neigbours wall.
Also there is a bunker in the second room. The grandparents of the shopowner hided there to protect themselves of the damage of bombs. Today you can't go inside. 15 years ago the tunnel had broken.
Also this building suffered by an earthquake. Therefore a beam broke and another moved a bit: