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Amazing Japanese Tree Houses



This amazing treehouse was designed by Takashi Kobayashi, one of Japan’s leading tree house creators.

Japanese-Treehouse

It was created after an advertising agency in Tokyo, commissioned him to design a treehouse for a Nescafé commercial now running on Japanese television.

Mr. Kobayashi built an oval bird’s nest of a house, 12 feet high and 9 feet in diameter, reached by a circular staircase, and the final price for this tree house was about $38,000.

The house is located on a field owned by the town of Kamishihoro, where it remains an enticing, if off-limits, gift from Nestlé, the makers of Nescafé, to the people of Hokkaido.

Here’s another tree house designed by a masters student in Toronto, which poses as a Japanese lantern on stilts.

Lantern-Treehouse

See other Amazing Tree Houses from around the world

Via Neatorama

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1 Comment     Categories : Design, Japan

One Response to “Amazing Japanese Tree Houses”

  1. [...] Well, the FreshHome blog has posted the 8 of the most amazing tree houses ever built. I posted the Japanese examples on my other site OneInchPunch.net, but this one below is a rather funky design, which sticks out in a forest, but to my mind still works. [...]



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