A renovated Meiji Era British Embassy villa in Oku-Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, has been reopened to the public, The Japan Times reported on 30 June.
Built in 1896 by Sir Ernest Satow GCMG, a British diplomat and Japanologist, the wooden two-storey structure shows how life was for those British diplomats who spent their summers there.
At the opening ceremony, British Ambassador to Japan Tim Hitchens CMG LVO said that the villa represents the long-lasting friendship between Japan and the UK.