Before renovations, the inside of the building was open to the public several times a year, but seismic reinforcement work and refurbishing was carried out between 2014 and 2015.

The floor plan was designed by the German firm called Germania Maschinenfabrik and then implemented by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka, who worked on other industrial projects including the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse.

After the war, it was used from March 1950 as part of the cornstarch manufacturing process (mainly a product storage warehouse) of Nippon Shokuhin Kako, which was established in July 1948.

In the early summer of 1994, Hideo Baba, the chairman of the Kyoto citizens' group "Red Brick Club Maizuru", learned that the factory was set to be demolished.

[7] In March 2022, a building was constructed that is a full-scale reproduction of the Kabuto Beer billboard, approximately 10m tall, that stood at Nagoya Station during the Meiji period.