温泉街一帯の建物を見てみましょう。
　赤い屋根に白い回廊を備えた造りになっています。旅館やホテル、雲仙観光局、公衆トイレ、交番などほとんどが同じデザインになっています。
　雲仙地域の建物は、明治期や大正期外国人の訪問が多かった頃に建てられた雲仙の旅館を見本にしてデザインされています。
　ちなみに、写真は雲仙で最も古い旅館「湯本旅館」の画像です。この旅館には外国人の受け入れのため、おしゃれな回廊がついていました。

★ 英語バージョン
Look at the buildings around town. The hotels, the tourist information center, the police box, even the toilets have the same white walls and red roofs. This distinctive style is based on the ryokan, or traditional Japanese inns, that were built in this area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The buildings were designed to appeal to the turn-of-the-century European ideal of what a resort town was supposed to look like. On your screen is an image of the oldest ryokan in Unzen. The corridor was added to the original ryokan building to impress Westerners who were vacationing in Unzen during the same time period.