Edward H. Hunter’s Former Residence

The former Asakura family home, built in the Taisho era, is open to the public on the back of the hillside terrace on the former Yamanote Street. The Asakura family has been a merchant since the Meiji era and made a fortune in rice sales. The Asakura family was built in 1918 and is the home of Kuroshiro, the chairman of the Meiji-era Daisei-era Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly and Shibuya District.. This is a two-story pure Japanese-style house, not well decorated, but also made of eight su wood veneers. After the war, it was said that someone used as a residence and meeting room for government officials in Shibuya, but it was opened to the public after being designated as a major cultural property of the country. It was a migratory garden that contained a cliff line on the south side and a moss-covered garden with many stone lanterns. Give me the admission fee of 100 yen, and tourists over 60 years old can visit for free. By the way, the Asakura family is also the owner of Daikanyama Hillside Terrace.

The Old Hunter's House, the finest Western building in the Meiji era and the largest alien hall, is now designated as a cultural property by Japan.

The Prince's Zoo in Kobe, built in Meiji in 1889, is so well preserved. It was a European building with great characteristics at that time.

In the zoo, a well-preserved European-style building, like a foreign building, does not understand why it is called a hunter's house.

There is a large cherry blossom in front of the old hunter's house. It's very beautiful. The building looks like a European style.