Former Aoyama Main Residence

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About 15 minutes from the Sakata Minato Interchange off the Yamagata Expressway via National Route 7, this residence is the estate of Aoyama Tomekichi, a fishing magnate. The residence has been nationally designated as an Important Cultural Property due to its distinctive construction style of the Meiji period. Visitors can tour the inside of the house in which elaborate engraved ranma transoms between the rooms are made into bamboo, sandalwood, and ebony woods. One can also appreciate the Shippoyaki cloisonné catches on the sliding doors, which at the time were comparable to the value of jewels, and can admire the fusuma paper sliding doors upon which artists vied to be selected to portray their painting. Many cultural treasure and artifacts related to the life of Aoyama Tomekichi and the affluence of the Aoyama family are also on display.

Spot details

Address: Yamagata Akumi-gun Yuzamachi Hiko Aozuka 155 Map
Area: Shonai Area (North)
Phone: 0234753145
Hours: [Apr.- Nov.]9:30-16:30(Last entry16:00)
[Dec.- Mar.]10:00-16:00(Last entry15:30)
Closed: Monday(The day following if it falls on a public holiday), New Year's holiday
Fees: [Admission fee]General400yen, University/High school students300yen, Elementary/Junior high school students200yen
*Other group discounts available
Parking Lot: Available(10spaces)

Information Sources: NAVITIME JAPAN

Review

Eye Opening to learn that even the very well-to-do lived basic lives

Reviewed : 2019.11.13

The thing that struck me about visiting the Town Home of Tomekichi Aoyama, a very well-to-do Japanese person, was that he lived what many of us today would describe as a very basic life. Inside...
漁業王

Reviewed : 2019.09.21

小樽のニシン御殿で知られている青山家の本邸です。青山家の当時の姿を知ることができます。遊佐町のはずれにあるので車で向かうのがよいと思います。
贅を尽くしたお屋敷

Reviewed : 2019.09.21

ニシン漁で巨万の富を築いた漁業王、青山留吉のお屋敷。国の重要文化財に指定されています。お金に糸目をつけずに建てたとされていますが、それが隅々にあらわれている造り。蔵やお庭も楽しめます。