Known as the “historic district,” in the only preservation district for groups of traditional buildings in Wakayama Prefecture, you can enjoy this quaint town lined with townhouses connected with the brewing industry and warehouses, which has flourished since long ago through making soy sauce and Kinzanji miso (a kind of soybean paste.) You can see the town’s low-ceilinged, two storied buildings called tsushi nikai (lofts), or various design features such as curtain panels, insect cage windows, lattice gratings, tiled roofs. Furthermore, it is a valuable preservation area where you can get to know about how people lived in the past, with small side streets called “shoji” or “shojikoji.”