Saga Hirakawaya Store and Restaurant / Keiji Ashizawa Design

The flagship store of Saga Hirakawaya is a shop and restaurant located in front of the historical tower gate of Takeo Onsen, a long-established hot spring resort in Saga prefecture. Priorly, the client had already been operating two restaurants. Still, when they came across this specific site in Takeo Onsen, where they were born and raised, they decided to open a new restaurant in the hope that it would contribute to the revitalization of the local area, which had lost its former liveliness and been unpopulated.