Located in Habikino City, Osaka, this rare renovated Japanese property beautifully preserves traditional craftsmanship while offering exceptional creative potential 🏯. With 174㎡ of living space, it consists of a refined main residence, a traditional storehouse, and a detached annex, an uncommon multi-building layout.
The main house evokes the atmosphere of a boutique ryokan, featuring carefully preserved tatami rooms, handcrafted shoji screens, a classic tokonoma, and a formal shoin-style study, all adding strong cultural and architectural value.
The layout is flexible and practical. Sliding doors link the Japanese rooms to the veranda and dining area, which features warm wood floors and exposed structural beams and connects seamlessly to a spacious kitchen. An earthen-floor passage provides direct access from the kitchen to the parking area.
Upstairs, a western-style bedroom with parquet flooring offers ample storage, alongside a Japanese-style room with a distinctive boat-shaped ceiling.
The storehouse and annex complete the property’s appeal. The storehouse’s open earthen floor and exposed rafters suit a studio, workshop, café, or rental use, while the annex, though needing care, retains strong character and could be transformed into a guesthouse or creative space, highlighted by its striking gambrel roof.
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