Katsuragikan

This three-story wooden former inn is located in front of JR Koyaguchi Station on the JR Wakayama Line. The building has been preserved just as it was when it served tired travelers to Mt. Koya long ago. The building's sangawara tiled hip-and-gable main roof features a chidorihafu (dormer gable) and nokikarahafu (undulating gable at the eave ends), giving it a stately appearance. Its copper-plated eaves and the all-glass shutters on the second and third floors of its front and eastern walls strike a marvelous harmony with the stately look of the roof. The wooden plate called Kohuda left behind by regular customers of the former inn that remain in its front entrance give clues about its past prosperity.