About this build

Five machiya, the narrow townhouses of a Japanese merchant street, side by side along a gravel street with a stone gutter, each seven blocks wide and each its own: a ground floor of four or five blocks so the eaves step along the street, frames of dark oak or spruce, plaster of white, ochre or clay. Every front has a lattice of wooden bars, a door at one side with the shop's curtain hanging over it and a low eave of tiles over the ground floor; above, the low upper floor has slit windows, and the long roof of grey tiles runs along the street. Inside, an earthen passage runs from the door to the back beside the raised floor of mats, with the shop at the front: the tea merchant's jars and kettle, the sake brewer's casks, the kimono maker's loom and silks, the potter's shelves of bowls and the sweet shop. A ladder at the back of the passage climbs to the room upstairs, with a futon, a chest and a lamp on a low table. Behind each house is a little garden of moss with a stone lantern, ferns and a water basin.

• Classic
• Japanese
• Houses
• Village

Added 13 Nov 2026 · Made in Minecraft 1.20.1