What are traditional Japanese buildings called?

Answer 1

Traditional Japanese homes are made of wood and supported by wooden pillars, but today's homes usually have Western-style rooms with wooden flooring and are often constructed with steel pillars. More and more families in urban areas, moreover, live in large, ferroconcrete apartment buildings. Two big differences with Western homes are that shoes are not worn inside the house and that at least one room tends to be designed in the Japanese style with a tatami floor. Shoes are taken off when entering a house to keep the floor clean. The genkan, or entrance, serves as a place for removing, storing, and putting on shoes. People tend to put on slippers for indoor use as soon as they have taken off their shoes.

Answer 2

Most Japanese live in apartments in concrete or steel framed buildings though some older small apartment buildings have wood frames. Houses usually have wood frames and many are still built using wooden pegs to hold the timbers together.The outside of these houses are often covered with cement tiles,stucco or metal siding. The old style houses with wooden siding and sliding doors are becoming less common but are still in use.

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Answer 3

There is no such thing as "Japans", we call them "Japanese" in English. The Japanese live in all types of housing depending on their area or wealth. Most people from major cities live in apartments or high rise condos. Made from the same materials used in the US. Outside, it is similar looking to America but the apartments are much, much smaller inside. Studio apartments many times are only 105 square feet. Apartments sometimes have lower ceilings and take up less space on the ground, so they are higher than American apartments. In suburban areas you will see small houses that are very tightly fit together. City apartments and even suburban houses usually don't have yards. If you see a yard in a suburban area, it is usually very small and filled with trees not just grass. Land is hard to see and concrete is everywhere in City and suburban areas. In the Rural areas you will see more old style Japanese houses. They are large but still not as large as American rural houses. Japanese old style houses have special heavy clay roof tiles set on for roofs. It is decorative and beautiful. They usually have tatami mat flooring. Tatami mats are mats made from woven straw. These houses usually have sliding doors as well.

Answer 4

Three major types of housing:

1. Traditional Japanese farm houses, called Minka. Still widely used and occupied typically by farming families and 3-4 generations.

2. Urban 1- and 2-story homes of roughly 100-150 sq. m. The plots of land are barely bigger than the houses and millions of people live in one of these.

3. Densely populated areas tend to favor apartments, which come both as low-rises of up to 5 stories, and high-rises, a new trend over the last 10 years, of up to 30 stories.

Answer 5

There are different types of houses in Japan that people live in. They houses are made from wood, bricks, stones and a mixture of these materials among others.

Answer 6

Some live in Regular houses like us but others, the street and in shacks

Answer 7

Pagodas?