Abstract
This paper is concerned with the results of an investigation into existing town houses in the old area of Hirakata, a town situated alongside the Yodo River on the Kyokaido Road between Osaka and Kyoto. 1) The classification of the characteristics in the formation of these town houses. 2) The investigation, from a historical perspective, of the developmental process of the houses since the first half of the Edo period. 3) Conjectives on the original structure of presently existing town houses from historical drawings. From these results it became clear that the method of construction of many of these town houese has been very strongly preseved, even after the Meiji period.
