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Uroko no Ie (the Scale House)

Hyogo · · Historic Districts

Japanese name: うろこの家

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WHAT TO DOUroko no Ie (the Scale House)

A Western house in the Kitano foreign quarter of Kobe, its walls faced with about 4,000 natural stone slabs that look like fish scales.

WHEREHyogo

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A Western house in the Kitano foreign quarter of Kobe, its walls faced with about 4,000 natural stone slabs that look like fish scales.

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