うなぎの寝ね床どこ

expression, noun

long, narrow house; eel bed house

Colloquial expression likening a very narrow, deep building to an eel's resting place. Often used for traditional Kyoto townhouses (町家) or similar narrow urban dwellings.

• 京きょう都との町まち家やは「うなぎの寝ね床どこ」と呼よばれる細ほそ長ながい家いえです。

  Kyoto townhouses are long, narrow houses called 'eel beds'.

• この店みせはうなぎの寝ね床どこみたいに奥おく行ゆきがある。

  This shop is deep and narrow like an eel bed.