The Former Kanehako Residence was a typical Teramachi Shoka. The family ran various businesses including pawnshop in Matsushiro Teramachi area from the late Edo period to the early Showa period. The entire residence premises consists of buildings that indicates the transition of time from the Meiji period to Taisho era, as well as the garden that includes fountain waterway and a pond. A part of the manor was reformed in 1893, with the pawn storage and the front gate completed in 1894 and 1895 respectively. Preservation maintenance was executed in order to make the facility into a new exchange base of the Matsushiro district. It reopened on April 4th, 2015.