Like most of the builds in the current incarnation of Totally Normal Town, our Japanese corner is a new take on a build I did for the 2022 Totally Normal Town.
The dojo I had built back then had an imposingly large façade -- it was quite wide and tall -- but it wasn't deep at all -- it was ridiculously narrow from front to back. This was largely due to the constraint of the the shape of the lot -- too much real estate was devoted to roads for cars.
This time, I wanted to take advantage of a full corner lot to create a dojo with a square footprint -- so it's actually possible to practice martial arts inside.
Both the top and bottom floors are both square and both have sliding doors (the back of the top floor has window panes that don't slide, but the front panels do):
I surrounded it with an entire Japanese garden with a torii gate and flowering fruit trees and a stream with a little bridge.
And in the corner I added a little shrine:
The one thing I miss most from the earlier version was the little lava monster that was integrated into the build. It has nothing to do with Japan, but it was cute.
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