Meiji

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

The Catholic Chikara-machi Church Believers' Hall in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a colonial-style two-story wooden Western building constructed around 1889–1892 as the rectory for French missionary Father Tulpin. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the history of early Catholic evangelization and Meiji-era Western architecture in Nagoya.

This Meiji-era brick wall at Nagoya's oldest Catholic church stretches 29 meters along Chikara-machi Street, featuring English-bond brickwork atop a cut-stone base. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, it contributes to the historic streetscape of the Shirakabe–Chikara–Shumoku Preservation District along Nagoya's Cultural Path.

Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.

In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.

The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.

The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.

An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.

Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.

In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.

Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.

Built in 1889, the oldest survivor. As the Kato family annex it lodged guests, with royalty named in local records; its black south wall anchors the streetscape.

A wall running about 28 metres along the front. Its southern base is granite in a tortoiseshell pattern, finished in black plaster, paired with the annex behind.

Discover the main hall of Kozenji Temple in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1893 by the Takenaka family. Standing on the ruins of Haguro Castle, this Rinzai Zen temple traces its origins to the Kamakura-period warrior Kajiwara Kagetoki.

The Kojima Residence roofed wall runs 56 metres along a lane in Inuyama's castle town, fronting a 1597 sake brewery with a formal honored gate. Registered in 2005.

The gate of Saishin-ji, a Jodo Shinshu temple in Anjo, Aichi, is a small four-legged gate built in 1903, richly carved with dragons and registered in 2022.

A small earthen storehouse at Sairenji temple near Inuyama Station, built in the Meiji era and moved here in 1937. One of the temple's five registered buildings.

A registered 1872 farmhouse in Kira, Aichi, built by a coastal shipping family. Its drama is overhead: a well-crib roof frame above the earthen-floored rooms.

The Sahashi Family Residence in Inuyama, known as Toraya, is a mid-Meiji townhouse registered in 2007 for its balustraded upper windows and black-plaster end bays.

Discover Jakkō-in Hondō, a registered cultural property in Inuyama, Aichi. Rebuilt in 1879, this graceful main hall sits on Mt. Tsugao surrounded by 1,000 maple trees, blending Buddhist tradition with stunning seasonal beauty.