{"id":442,"date":"2009-05-30T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T12:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:43:23","slug":"old-toyosato-elementary-school-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/old-toyosato-elementary-school-reborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Toyosato Elementary School reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Renovation of the old Toyosato Elementary School (\u8c4a\u90f7\u5c0f\u5b66\u6821), housed in a building designed by\u00a0William Merrell Vories in 1937, has been completed and a ceremony was held on May 30, 2009 to mark its completion.<\/p>\n

At a total cost of 650 million yen, the old building was repainted, reinforced against earthquakes, installed with an elevator, and preserved as much as possible.<\/p>\n

The three-story building’s first floor has a public library and small play area for infants. The second floor with classrooms is preserved as it was originally. The old library next to the main building will be used a gallery.<\/p>\n

During 1999-2002,\u00a0Toyosato<\/a> gained national attention when this old elementary school building was going to be torn down by the mayor in opposition to activists who wanted to preserve the building.<\/p>\n

See my photos of the renovated school.<\/a>\u00a0| Google Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renovation of the old Toyosato Elementary School (\u8c4a\u90f7\u5c0f\u5b66\u6821), housed in a building designed by\u00a0William Merrell Vories in 1937, has been completed and a ceremony was held on May 30, 2009 to mark its completion. At a total cost of 650… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toyosato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}