Hanare
TOKYO · YANAKA · EST. 2024
A quiet room in a noisy city.
Hanare occupies a 1920s machiya in Yanaka, one of the few corners of Tokyo where the old city still breathes. Twelve rooms. A garden the size of a tatami mat. A bath you can hear the rain in.
We restored what could be saved and built around what couldn’t. The result is a house that does not pretend to be old, and does not pretend to be new.
The House→
Hinoki.
Shadow.
Quiet.
FOUR ROOMS· 四室
“Tokyo is loud because it is alive. We did not want to fight that. We wanted to build a room you could close a door on, and have it be enough.”
— SHIRO TANAKA, ARCHITECT
Yanaka is a five-minute walk from Nippori Station and a hundred years from the rest of Tokyo. The cemetery is the most beautiful in the city, especially in April. There are eleven temples within ten minutes of our front door. A coffee shop next door has been roasting since 1948.
We will draw you a map.
Notes from the neighborhood→
FROM THE JOURNAL· 日記
