Meiji

The smallest of the seven, this late-Meiji tea room is barely four mats. Tradition credits it to local master Shimomura Mitsuyoshi, and bamboo runs throughout.

A Kobo Daishi hall of 1909 at Shounji, a Zen temple in Inuyama's old castle town, with three ten-mat rooms under coffered ceilings. Registered in 2012.

This late Meiji bell tower at Shounji Temple in Inuyama fits classical carpentry, brackets and frog-leg struts, into 18 square meters. Registered in 2012.

Discover the Seto Eisen Church Chapel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1900 in Seto City, Aichi. This charming wooden chapel blends Western and Japanese architectural techniques and remains an active place of worship today.

A mid-Meiji earthen kura in Inuyama's old castle town, the Takino Family Storehouse shows namako-kabe walls and heavy earthen fire doors, registered in 2004.

Built in 1902 in an old Aichi cotton town, the pale-blue wooden Chita Okada Simple Post Office was Chita's first registered cultural property and still sells stamps.

The main hall of Chobo-ji in Nagoya is a registered hojo-style building rebuilt in 1894 after the Great Nobi Earthquake, at a Zen temple founded by the monk Muju.

Built in 1887, the saimonden and corridor of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi link its halls under one cypress-bark roof, a rare Owari-style layout registered in 2014.

The Ubagami-sha at Chiryu-jinja in Aichi is a vermilion Meiji-period auxiliary shrine to a mother goddess of childbirth, registered for its fine carving.

Chiryū-an, a Meiji-era tea house relocated to Chiryū Shrine in 1968, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property prized for sukiya touches such as bark-edged posts.

Discover Nakamura Park Memorial Hall, a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1910 in Nagoya. This elegant shoin-zukuri guest house once hosted the Crown Prince and stands as the oldest surviving Meiji-era public wooden building in the city.

The 1898 core of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka. A two-storey brewery adjoins a five-storey block with fireproof floors and cavity walls.

The largest wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, extended in three ranges from 1908 as Kabuto Beer sold. Note the English-bond walls, gables and strafing marks.

The single-storey half-timber wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, built in 1898 to wash, fill and ship bottles. Its timber frame recalls the Tomioka Silk Mill.

Built in 1668 at Toyohashi's beloved Fumonji Maple Temple, this eight-legged gate (yatsuashi-mon) houses a pair of muscular Kongō Rikishi guardian statues carved by the sculptor Daizen the previous year. Newly registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in March 2025 alongside five other Edo-period buildings, the gate's hipped copper roof and refined sculptural details make it one of the finest surviving early-Edo temple gates in the Tōkai region.

Built in 1903 for the local war dead, this single-bay memorial hall at Hōshuin spans about 20 square meters, its porch carved with Rising Sun motifs of its era.

Hidden in the precincts of a quiet Pure Land temple in Tsushima, Aichi, the Hosenji Shoin (former Hattori Family Residence Shoin) is a refined sukiya-style shoin originally built around the 1890s for a wealthy fertilizer merchant and donated to the temple in 1930. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, it preserves the elegant tokonoma alcove, paulownia transoms, polished round timbers, and a small tea room with shitaji-mado windows that defined refined Meiji-era town-merchant architecture. A perfect addition to a heritage walk that includes Tsushima Shrine and the Hotta Family Residence.

Built in 1883 by a former Naruse retainer turned silk grower, this is the only samurai-style house left in Inuyama's castle town. A spear rack recalls its warrior past.

A thick-walled kura from 1893 at the Horibe Residence in Inuyama. Plaster and dark boarding give it the classic armor of a storehouse, built for a silk-trading family.

Discover the Main Hall of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1896 by renowned master carpenter Onoda Matazō. Explore its 1,200-year history, stunning carvings, and ancient trees.