Iwashina School
Iwashina School, completed in September 1880, is a masterpiece of quasi western-style architecture in which items characteristic to western architecture, such as the curved lines in its white balconies, were incorporated into traditional Japanese shrine-style architecture.
In Japan, this school building is known as a place symbolizing the Westernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912), along with the former Mutsuzawa School in Kofu city, and the former Kaichi Gakuen School in Matsumoto city.
When Iwashina School was built, education was being enthusiastically promoted in Matsuzaki town, and donations collected for building the school accounted for about 40% of its total construction costs.