Former Sakata Clinic

Built in 1931 along the main shopping street of Menuma, the former Sakata Clinic is one of the best-preserved Art Deco buildings in the region. The 10-room layout is intact: dispensary, examination room, delivery room, operating theater, X-ray room, and darkroom. Original equipment remains in place throughout, including glass syringes, surgical instruments, and early X-ray machines. Decorative Art Deco pendant lamps and molded milk-glass fixtures survive alongside the practical medical fittings of the early Showa era. The clinic changed little until it closed in the 1980s and has since been designated a registered Tangible Cultural Property. It opens to the public several times a year.