Former Kaichi School

The local carpenter Tateishi Kiyoshige designed and built it in the pseudo-Western style, which blends Western forms with Japanese craft. The plaster walls imitate stone, an octagonal tower rises at the center, and the porch has a curved Japanese gable, a dragon carving and two angels holding the school's name plaque. About 2,500 pieces of colored glass earned it the nickname Giyaman School. Townspeople paid roughly seventy percent of the construction cost. The building was moved to its present site in the early 1960s and has been open as an education museum since 1965.