The historical landscape of Narai town has been kept as a whole like Tsumago and Magome. The scale of the conservation of the town is the largest in Kisoji, perhaps in Japan.
  The entire street surrounded by rows of the traditional Town-Houses has been conserved in the scale longer than 1,000 meters. It doesn't means that merely some parts of the town has been conserved. The town-street existing now really as a whole make up a historical tandscape.
  In other words, the entire shape of the town, as historical view, has been surviving with daily life of people. Wonderful !
  The activity for conservation of the landscape has been continuing since around 1968, for about half a century. In 1978 the Narai town designated for one of the conservation area of important traditional buildings by government of Japan

  It does not means that the town-street has been conserved until now, isolated far from the daily life of people like a set for the movie shoot. Alive as a place of everyday life, the town-street as a whole has been kept carefully.
  Therefore the rows of the Town-Houses has surevived, compromising with the contemporary life of people. Then it has come through some changes. Particuler features has experienced some changes corresponding to the aesthetics or life-style of the time.
  The typical one is the rattice covering the frontage of the first floor of the house. Though in the old days the frontage was usually covered with Shitomi, nowadays it was replaced with the rattice which once covered the frontage of upstair.

  Then the height of the houses have changed also typically. From time to time the houses have been getting taller. Because the architecture, the life-style and height of people have changed.
  Each change has come because the Town-Houses have been the place of daily life.