Nagaya-mon Gate

This gate type is called Nagaya-mon. In Edo period, Samurai class family and rich farmers made many rooms in their gate and let servants live there.
The whitewashed gate is Samurai class house gate and this wooden gate is for rich farmers.

This old farmer house is the birthplace of Sahachiro Hata, a bacteriologist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahachiro_Hata