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Kurokabe Square

Shiga · Nagahama · Art & Crafts

Japanese name: 黒壁スクエア

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Kurokabe Square
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WHAT TO DOKurokabe Square

Built around a black-plastered former bank, the district was reborn as a town of glass.

WHEREShiga

Kohoku · Nagahama

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Built around a black-plastered former bank, the district was reborn as a town of glass.

About this place

Kurokabe Square is a tourist spot in the old town of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, making use of its group of traditional buildings. It is the collective name for Kurokabe No. 1 through No. 30, Japanese-style buildings with black plaster, but it is generally introduced as the area centered on "Fuda-no-tsuji" (named for being the place where public notice boards stood in the Edo period), the intersection of the Hokkoku Kaido and Otemon-dori (Mino Tanigumi Kaido).

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Founded / opened:1989

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