About 15 minutes walk east from Kumatori Station on the JR Hanwa Line. This is a historic old house where Emperor Goshirakawa is said to have stopped by during his visit to Kumano during the Heian period, and the residence of the Naka family, who served as head lord of the Kishiwada clan during the Edo period, has been preserved and opened to the public. It was designated as a national important cultural property in 1964. The main building, located beyond the large front gate, is a gabled structure with a thatched roof and gables, and is thought to be an early Edo-era building. The spacious and highly independent dirt floor is one of the largest in the Kinki region, and is reminiscent of the back room of a temple or the kitchen of a samurai family. Today, only the main house, front gate, and Karamon gate remain, but old maps from the late Edo period show attached buildings such as a separate reception hall (shoin), nagayamon gate, and gokura, making it a much larger mansion. Now that I know what it was like, I can remember what it used to be like.