🇯🇵Japan·Private home, not open to visitors

Nomi House, Townhouse in Hirano (平野区の町屋―能見邸)

Hirano-ku, Osaka

Sources checked October 2026

“A walled square two storeys high, open onto courtyards, in an old and densely built district of Osaka.”

Year: 1996
Architect: Tadao Ando
Type: House with courtyards
Access: Private residence, not open to visitors

In Osaka's Hirano ward, Tadao Ando completed this small house, the Nomi House, in 1996. Set in an old and densely built district, it returns to an idea from his early years: a world apart for those who live in it, with set limits and open courtyards.

A private, lived-in home: it is not open to visitors. It is placed without an address, from a public source, at neighbourhood or city level.

In depth ≈ 1 min read

Architecture

The house stands in an old, very densely built part of Osaka. Ando carries on here an idea he formed early in his career: giving the people who live there a world of their own, with set limits, opening onto courtyards. Its walls draw a square two storeys high, placed on a tight plot amid buildings that are largely old.