01 ／ Streetscape
Walls built against the west windmade a black-and-white town.
In the early Meiji era, people grown rich on silkworms tiled their walls and sealed the joints with plaster, against fire and a winter west wind that blows for three days once it starts. These are namako walls. A 2002 survey counted 189 buildings. Iwashina School (岩科学校), built in 1880, is a namako-walled school and an Important Cultural Property.
- 189 buildings (2002 survey)
- Built mid-Meiji to early Showa
- Iwashina School is an Important Cultural Property
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