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Inside a Japanese wooden townhouse
Kyoto's traditional wooden townhouses, Machiya, are under threat - replaced by air conditioned and earthquake resistant apartment blocks.
Many conservationists and historians are worried about the houses disappearing, but could foreign investors help preserve them?
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Travel Show's Carmen Roberts finds out more.
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