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A 1927 rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi, registered in 2004. A porte cochere and name board sit on its symmetrical west front. Exterior viewing only.
A concrete washing fixture of 1927 in the front garden of a rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi. Patients washed here before entering. Registered 2004.
The 1927 inpatient wing of a rural clinic at Ouma in Toyokawa, Aichi, registered in 2004. Three six-mat rooms and board verandas sit behind a Western front.
A 1929 reinforced-concrete water tower at the former Okada Clinic in Chita, Aichi, stored well water for the clinic and home before piped water reached the town.
A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Okada: a small 1931 storehouse from an army doctor's clinic in the historic home of Chita cotton, near Nagoya.
Built in 1929 by a retired army surgeon, the Former Okada Clinic in Chita joins a tiled roof to a Western truss and colored-glass transoms. Registered 2015.
A 1929 doctor's clinic in Okada, an old cotton town in Chita. A registered cultural property of mixed Western and Japanese design, now a working weaving workshop.
In Chita's old cotton town of Okada, this small 1929 storehouse served a retired army surgeon's clinic. Its street facade mimics cut stone; registered in 2015.
A registered 1929 wall in Chita, Aichi: 33 meters of arched reinforced concrete on a stone base, framing a doctor's compound within an old cotton-town streetscape.
A tiny 1929 hoanden in the grounds of Sanjo Shrine, Ichinomiya: concrete shaped like wood, built to hold the Emperor's portrait. It survived postwar demolition.
Near Nagoya, the north high wall of the former Kato residence doubles as a side eave of the main house, with lattice windows above for light. Registered in 1999.
An early Showa reception wing in Kitanagoya, Aichi, linked to the main house by a covered passage. Ten and eight mat rooms, a tea room with a convex roof.
On Nagoya's Horikawa canal, the Former Kato Shokai Building is a 1931 office built by a Siam trader and consul, once the Siam consulate, now a Thai restaurant.
An iron turntable of 1927 at Taketoyo Town in Aichi, only 7.5 metres across. Two tracks cross it at right angles, a freight-yard type that survives nowhere else.
Built in 1929 as a Nagoya Bank branch, the Former Tsushima Shinkin Bank Head Office is an all-concrete provincial bank, registered in 2006 and now free to enter.
Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete block gate in Tokoname, Aichi. Iron lattice leaves slide across a 5.0 meter opening below punched-out lettering.
Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete hall in Tokoname, Aichi: purple tile, triangular roof lanterns, a silver gallery. Registered 2023. Free entry.
Alone in Toyokawa farmland, the Former Toyokawa Telephone Loading Coil Tower is a six-metre concrete relic of the 1928 Tokyo to Kobe line, Japan's first long cable.
Honda Tadatsugu built this Spanish-style house in Tokyo; Okazaki City rebuilt it beside Higashi Park in 2012 and it gained registered status in 2014. Free to enter.
The newest of the nine Yamashige buildings, raised in 1950. Inside, a room for applying overglaze decoration to ceramics survives, north of the Middle Warehouse.