Former Katsudo Shashinkan, Asahikan

Interesting building

If you are in town this is worth stopping for. It’s a bit of history - not many of these left - where you can see the mechanics of the kabuki. Inexpensive to visit and a half-hour to tour, if you hav...

Avant-garde

Original Text

It seems that 10 years after the Uchikoza was built, it was built to the movie theater. A quirky design building appears in a lonely place slightly off Yakkaichi / Gokoku and Honmachi-dori. Was it the cold gaze of the public on the activity photograph at that time that it was built on a land one step lower from the surroundings?

It is a former movie theater building that makes you feel the Showa era strongly.

Original Text

It is not often introduced in tourist books, but it is a building that you should definitely see while walking around Uchiko. You can't go inside and only outside, but there are many posters of old movies on them, and you can enjoy it just by looking at them.

A sensual movie theater I found by chance while walking through the alleys of the townscape preservation district

Original Text

On the way back from the cityscape preservation area, when you enter a side road a little, an old movie theater that suddenly seems to be called by people with an impact in front of you. Unfortunately, we cannot visit it, but there was an explanation, and it was a theater and movie theater built at the end of the Taisho era called Asahikan, which was closed in the early Showa ４０ early in the year. It's a closed building, but it seems that the locals have maintained it with old posters. In a sense, there is a theater that was a double-best with Uchikoza, and ...

Retro cinema

Original Text

It's not open anymore, but it used to be a movie theater. There were many posters of the movies of a long time ago on the front, and I could feel the remnants of the time when this movie theater was prosperous. The retro atmosphere building also has a taste, and I wanted it to be reopened as a movie theater.