Saijo's modern architecture built in 1920s

TOYOTA Benji [1891-1959]

TOYOTA Benji designed several buildings located in Saijo's Sake Brewery Street district.  Respective office buildings of Kamotsuru and Kirei breweries and the former Saijo Branch of Hiroshima Prefectural Sake Laboratory were all designed by TOYOTA. 

Besides Sake factories, Saijo has these quasi-western buildings and old-fashioned houses of local people. Recently the Kuguri-mon gate, originally built in the 1920s, was restored and now serves as a tourist information and community space. There used to be two gates of the same type as the restored and between the gates stood stores and beyond the gate a theater. 

Feel the history of the town while walking and sipping sake in the Sake Brewery Street of Saijo.