Our hostel, Cue, was also one of them - owned by a non-local person, moved from Chiba. It used to be a residence of a rich, merchant family. The house is big with three floors, and it was renovated into a hostel by volunteers and Machiokoshi (Japan revitalization group) participants! It has a nice atmosphere with wooden floors, doors, and windows, with a closed garden inside. Even the dormitory rooms were spacious, with individual bed partitioned with walls. There is a shower room in the hostel, but also are three public hot springs that you could use for a few hundred yen. The streets were well paved and clean, with lots of relatively new shops, restaurants, and cafes. It was a good mixture of old and new. The key person was the previous mayor to have made Taketa famous and popular among domestic immigrants.
The coworker who is about to start renovating his machiya seemed to have gotten a lot of inspiration from the whole area.
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