Funairi-chō (船入町) is a historic neighbourhood located in the Nakamura ward of Nagoya, central Japan. It was one of the merchant areas, located close to the Hori Canal and south of

Nagoya Castle is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period. Nagoya Castle was the heart of one of the ...

. The translation means a "ship entering town". It was an area of trade and commerce. Houses were in the ''

machiya are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto. (townhouses) and (farm dwellings) constitute the two categories of Japanese vernacular architecture known as (folk dwellings). orig ...

'' style, with the commercial area downstairs, and the family living in the back and upstairs. The area was heavily damaged during the bombing of Nagoya in World War II, with a large number of merchant houses destroyed and persons perished. One of the traditional merchant ''machiya'' houses that survived from there is the Tōmatsu House (東松家住宅 , ''Tōmatsu-ka jūtaku''), which was constructed in 1901 and was located next to Tenmahashi bridge (伝馬橋) and relocated to the

Meiji-mura is an open-air architectural museum/theme park in Inuyama, near Nagoya in Aichi prefecture, Japan. It was opened on March 18, 1965. The museum preserves historic buildings from Japan's Meiji (1867–1912), Taishō (1912–1926), and early Sh ...

museum in the 1960s. It has been designated by the government as an Important Cultural Property.東松家住宅（重要文化財）｜エリア別建造物｜文化財｜園内の楽しみ方｜博物館明治村
/ref> Bordering north of Funairi-chō along the canal is the Shikemichi, a registered historical street which also features ''machiya'' houses.

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Nakamura-ku, Nagoya Neighbourhoods of Nagoya {{Aichi-geo-stub

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