A nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Historic Buildings, spread across the Masuda district of Yokote City, featuring the distinctive townscape of uchigura merchant houses that flourished from the late Edo period through the Meiji and Taisho eras. Uchigura refers to a distinctive architectural style in which a storehouse is built within the main dwelling, a rational…

江戸時代後期から明治・大正にかけて商業で栄えた増田町で発達した「内蔵」の建築文化。国の重要伝統的建造物群保存地区に選定。雪国の気候に適応した主屋内蔵の建築形式は全国でも希少。