During the Meiji Period it (1868–1912) it was destroyed by a fire and rebuilt, but the Edo architecture was left in many placed. It ran for about 250 years until 1949 when it went out of business, but the business has been carried on and it is now a history museum that collects various materials related to Arai-shuku, including relics of the Tokaido and the inn culture of the time.