Alas, when the building was constructed in 1901, its roof was made of wood, and thereafter suffered repeated termite infestation. The building was consequently refurbished in 1912 following a de sign by Moriyama Matsunosuke, another architect, so that it is now impossible to see its original ap326pearance.
可惜一九○一年興建之初，屋頂採用木造，後來因屢遭白蟻侵蝕而於一九一二年大修，由另一位技師森山松之助設計改建，因此已無法窺得原貌。