Yōkai SOHO

Yōkai SOHO Yōkai SOHO is a recycled building that accommodates Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHO). Yōkai SOHO was born from this concept of transformation and recycling.

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Yōkai SOHO is a recycled building that accommodates Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHO) and an After School (Studio Ao). Yōkai SOHO is located on the outskirts of Kitano Tenmangū shrine, in a commercial area of retail shops (shōtengai 商店街) leading to the famous Yōkai Street. In this area, which was the northwestern entrance to Kyoto city in the Heian period (8th century), the people of Kyoto had the

habit to abandon their used objects. These objects eventually transformed into funny creatures (yōkai 妖怪), and then entered back into the city, thus giving birth to a fantastic folklore; literary and artistic descriptions. A decage ago, in 2005, following this ancient history, the merchants of Ichijō street (Old Kyoto’s first avenue) decided to decorate their frontage with sculptures related to these creatures, and to create a Yōkai street. The building, over its lifespan, has played host to a series of different functions including a supermarket, a bread factory and offices. Before becoming a 5 floors steel and concrete high building, it was a wooden ancient inn, a ryokan 旅館, and its backstreet was a pleasure area. Designed and renovated by architects and scholars specializing in Japanese architecture, Yōkai SOHO combines different activities:
- The entrance floor (1F) and the second floor (2F) are rented by an After School (Studio Ao).
- The upper floors (3-5F) are rental Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) lofts, one per floor. These lofts are fully equipped with a working space, crafted tatami rooms, terrace gardens, all accessible by elevator. They feature an interpretation of traditional machiya 町家 (townhouse) architecture combined with a contemporary loft atmosphere.

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Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
602-8371

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What is Yōkai SOHO? Why Yōkai and why SOHO?

Yōkai SOHO is a recycled building that accommodates Small Office/Home Office (i.e., SOHO) and an After school (Studio Ao). Yōkai SOHO is located on the outskirts of Kitano Tenmangū shrine, in a commercial area of retail shops (shōtengai 商店街) leading to the famous Yōkai Street.

In this area, which was the northwestern entrance to Kyoto city in the Heian period (8th century), the people of Kyoto had the habit to abandon their used objects. These objects eventually transformed into funny creatures (yōkai 妖怪), and then entered back into the city, thus giving birth to a fantastic folklore; literary and artistic descriptions. A decade ago, in 2005, following this ancient history, the merchants of Ichijō 一条 street (Kyoto’s first avenue) decided to decorate their frontage with sculptures related to these creatures, and to create a Yōkai street. Yōkai SOHO was born from this concept of transformation and recycling. The building, over its lifespan, has played host to a series of different functions including a supermarket, a bread factory and offices. Before becoming a 5 floors high steel and concrete building, it was a wooden inn, a ryokan 旅館, and its backstreet was a pleasure area.

Our goal was to transform this building into a new kind of yōkai, through the creation of multiple activities, and thanks to the energy of our guests and visitors. Today, Yōkai SOHO combines different activities: - The entrance floor (1F) is rented by Studio Ao, and After School for Junior High School kids. Their teaching is based on programming, coding, robotics and other education program which are usually taught at school. - The second floor (2F) hosts a 4 meters high ceiling space, offices and a co-working space (Collective コレクティブ). - The upper floors (3-5F) are Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) lofts, one per floor. These lofts are fully equipped with a working space, crafted tatami rooms, terrace gardens, and are all accessible by elevator. They feature an interpretation of traditional machiya 町家 (townhouse) architecture combined with a contemporary loft atmosphere.

The illustration of this story is a tramway, symbol of a lost modernity, but still vivid in the collective memory of the neighborhood. Our building is born from this age as until the 1980s a tramway line was running along Kitano shōtengai: http://kyotokitano.com/densya/