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Built about 1872 as a locomotive repair shop at Shinbashi Station, its iron shipped from Liverpool. It now holds the Machinery Pavilion at Museum Meiji-mura, Aichi.
Step onto the Tendō Spectacle Bridge at Meiji-mura, a graceful 1887 stone arch bridge originally built in Yamagata's Tendō. Crafted from local Yamadera stone with a distinctive horizontal deck inspired by Roman aqueducts, it stands as a quiet masterpiece of Meiji-era civil engineering preserved in Aichi's open-air museum.
Tucked into the Japanese Garden of Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi, the Tokyo School for the Blind Porte-cochère is a registered tangible cultural property that preserves the elegantly designed entrance porch of a 1910 Tokyo school building. Three free-standing arches, refined plant and geometric ornament, and half-timber detailing capture the artistic peak of late Meiji school architecture.
The 1911 front block of the Meiji government's central library in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Okuma Yoshikuni, with four Doric half-columns under a carved pediment.
A wing of 1910 added behind an 1889 settlement house in Nagasaki, now at Museum Meiji-Mura. A western room, two tatami rooms, a corridor treated as half outdoors.
A colonial house of 1889 moved from the Nagasaki foreign settlement to Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi. Veranda posts, a plaster-ridged roof, restored wood-grain doors.
One of four ornamental lamp standards from the bridge at the Imperial Palace gate, cast in Germany in 1888 and re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi in 1965.
One of nine timber wards built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo by Katayama Tokuma, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.
A timber lavatory block of 10 square meters, built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.
Meiji Village Hawaii Immigrant Assembly Hall was built in Hilo around 1889 for Japanese immigrants, moved to Meiji Mura in 1969, and registered in 2004.
Meiji Village Handa Azumayu Bathhouse, a port town sento built at Kamezaki in Handa around 1910 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1980, was registered in 2004.
Meiji Village Sixth Infantry Regiment Barracks, built in Nagoya Castle in 1873 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1965, is a rare garrison era block registered in 2004.
A late Meiji barbershop moved from Tokyo to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with the 2 upstairs rooms where Ishikawa Takuboku lived.
A wooden prison cell house of 1888 moved from Maebashi to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with chestnut lattice enclosing 9 cells.
An 1888 schoolhouse by the engineer Shimizu Yoshiya, built in Tsu, reused in Nabari, moved to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2003.
An 1886 courtroom moved from Miyazu to Meiji Mura: raised judge's bench, open eaves, arched door, plus admission, hours and access details for visitors.
A 1912 substation for the Nagoya Electric Railway, now at Meiji Mura: arched openings, corner buttresses, an exposed queen post truss, with hours and access.
The Sendagi house rented in turn by Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki, now at Meiji Mura: a middle Meiji home where I Am a Cat was written, with visitor details.
A 1907 bank in Aizu-Wakamatsu built as a fireproof earthen storehouse, its black-plastered shell enclosing a full-height hall with fluted columns and a gallery.
One of six wrought-iron spans from Japan's first double-track railway bridge, built 1877 and rebuilt at Museum Meiji-Mura with its Liverpool maker's plates intact.