Old Makita Residence, Merchant house in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, Japan

The Old Makita Residence, also called Kurayoshi Yodoya, is the oldest surviving merchant house in Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, in the Utsubuki-Tamagawa district. Its main building dates from 1760 and an attached structure from 1838; only these two remain of a compound that once included storehouses.

The Kurayoshi Yodoya merchant house was founded in 1705 by Makita Niémon, a former head clerk of the Osaka Yodoya, after that firm was dissolved. The main house was built in 1760 and an attached building in 1838. The Makita family died out in the early Meiji period, after which the building served as a post office and rented housing.

The house is known as Kurayoshi Yodoya, after the Osaka merchant house Yodoya, whose former head clerk Makita Niémon opened this branch in 1705. The Makita family traded in inakoki senba sickles and Kurayoshi kasuri textiles, and that trade built the family's fortune. The building later served as a post office and as a rented house after the family line ended in the early Meiji period.

The house stands in the Utsubuki-Tamagawa district of Kurayoshi, Tottori Prefecture, near the Toyota Residence, another registered tangible cultural property. Only the main house and the attached building remain; storehouses that once stood on the site are gone. The gate and the formal entrance with its raised threshold were restored between fiscal 2016 and 2017.

Only the main house and an attached building survive; storehouses that once stood on the site are gone. The main house was built in 1760 and the attached building in 1838, and both were restored between 2007 and 2008, with the gate and formal entrance porch rebuilt in 2016–2017.