Meiji

Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.

The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.

Built in 1907 on a high stone plinth against the Yahagi River, the Hatcho Miso Head Office Storehouse brewed miso until 1941 and reopened as a museum in 1991.

The Banjo Brewery Main House in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo two-storey dwelling of 171 square meters with a black plastered street front, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery New Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is an early Meiji fermentation hall of 298 square meters with 8 continuous posts, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery Outer Well in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a group of 6 early Meiji shafts on a detached plot, with concrete and Tokoname stoneware curbs, 2007.

The Motogura of Banjo Jozo in Odaka, Nagoya: a middle Meiji timber fermentation hall listed 2007, with steaming and testing rooms attached. Closed to visitors.

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.

The Horibe Family Residence Workshop is an 1893 storeroom, farm shed, and silkworm room on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, registered in 2006. Plan and visiting.

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.

The Horibe Family Residence Corridor is an 1893 covered passage on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2006. Layout, walls, and visiting hours.

This middle Meiji storehouse in Handa City has walls plastered to the eaves and a single window. Linked to the main house by a corridor, it was registered in 2024.

Built around 1884 on the Morozaki road in Handa City, this merchant house pairs a working plan of seven rooms with tea-room detailing, and was registered in 2024.

The Mano Family Residence Main House is an 1894 two-story townhouse at the south gateway to Inuyama castle town, registered in 2005 for its toriniwa plan and lattice