What is that four-storied wooden building? A private residence? Quite an unusual building!
Here it is on google maps, which should be enough info. I've shot and posted pics before of the other side-- the entrance/front of it, but this is the first time I've tried the back (and the narrow road that it fronts on heads back away from the river into Teramachi, a zillion temples, along with the present site of
Ninja-tera). My shot is from across the river, and I went up an open/external
staircase to get up higher, to the same level/elevation. Swing that view to the left to look across the river. The place could be in a Ghibli movie.
Too bad about that one pole in the way. The pole itself could be edited out, but on the original the lines from the pole running both ways the whole width of the building (and also to either side) would be hard, and then there also are reflections of the wires in some of the windows, too (mixd with other reflections of stuff from the other side of the river (like where I'm shooting from).
Since I went up the stairs, my shot is trivially better than most
, which show an upwards angle from street level.
The address there is 蛤町 (hamaguri-), = clam, supposedly descriptive of the area. The old 北国街道 didn't go down the street that this place fronts on, but passed by a stone's throw away.