Old Nisshinkan | Yokote City Tourism Promotion Organization

Overview

The former Nichininkan was built as a residence of Charles · C · Chanpuri, an American who had been appointed as an English teacher of the former government Yokote Middle School (now Yokote Highschool) in 1902 by Kamezaka Kamezaki, and the master of the carpenter It is reported as Fujimura Hatsugoro.

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Overview

It is a very rare place in the Western-style building, a simple house with beautiful trees (Shiraki) with beautiful skins. In addition, we have well characterized the Western style architecture in the Meiji period, such as the front door decoration of the entrance balcony, the picture frame of the window, the eaves of the comb, etc. Of excellent design.
There are no wooden Western style houses in the prefecture other than the former Nisshin Hall during the Meiji Era, and only those that exist in foreign teachers and missionaries in the whole country, including the former Nichininka, are only 20

Access

Old Nisshinkan (7-1 Jyounanmachi, Yokote, Akita)

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Yokote City Board of Education Educational Affairs Department Cultural Properties Protection Division
TEL (+81)182-32-2403