Western-style residence, the former Iwasaki Family House

This exotic atmospheric house is designed by Josiah Conder. He designed the house based on the Jacobean Style architecture of England, and also Islamic motif was adopted to the house.
The house was built in 1896 for the residence of the Iwasaki Family who was the founder of the Mitsubishi Group. The house was requisitioned by GHQ(Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers) after World war II and it has been released to Japanese Government since 1953.
This is now important cultural assets of japan and it has been opened to public under control of Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

The image was taken by Olympus Pen E-P1 with M. Zuiko Digital 14-45mm 1:3.5-5.6
1/160 f/7.0 ISO200