ARCHITECTURE
Rooms for eating
Townhouses, ryotei, and the counters of contemporary architecture.
A quiet street in Kyoto’s Gion district at night lined with traditional machiya townhouses — Photo: lumoplank / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons
The Japanese table cannot be separated from its room. Townhouses on the street, tatami rooms facing gardens, plain-wood counters — architecture is part of the meal.
Among the restaurants in this archive are one inside the Japan Institute of Architects' building, others on the upper floors of large complexes, and one run as an auberge in Toga village, Nanto, Toyama.
Architects and designers are named only where a source confirms them.
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Photo credits
A quiet street in Kyoto’s Gion district at night lined with traditional machiya townhouses
Gion, Kyoto
Photographer / creator
lumoplank
Kumiko woodwork lattice in a guest room built around 1921, Tsuru
Tsuru, Yamanashi
Photographer / creator
さかおり
Source / licence
Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
さかおり, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matcha bowl and wagashi at the Senri-an teahouse, Expo ’70 Commemorative Park, Osaka
Suita, Osaka
Photographer / creator
Laitche
Noren-hung entrance to the sushi restaurant Sushi Aoki in Tokyo
Tokyo
Photographer / creator
City Foodsters
Source / licence
City Foodsters, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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