Taishō

Built in 1922 for Aichi's silkworm egg inspectors, this Toyota City office grafts chidori gables and daito blocks onto an early reinforced concrete frame.

A granite gate of 1922 on a Toyota City street, its posts ribbed at base and capital beneath a pantiled timber roof, registered in 2000 for its townscape.

Built in 1916 on an irregular plot, Nakasada Shoten Daigo Storehouse has a trapezoidal plan and a low koji loft. Registered in 2016, it now holds a brewing museum.

A Taisho-era villa in Mizuho Ward, Nagoya. Three wings step westward in echelon, holding a coffered reception room, stained glass and two tea rooms. Garden free.

Built in 1914 on the south edge of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this granite gate and 1930 tiled wall were listed in 2007. A new ward quotes its pillars.

At the southeast corner of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this late Taisho service gate carries 55 meters of glazed tile and terracotta. Listed in 2007.

On the south edge of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this 1914 gate keeps two original granite posts under an arch, with a wall refaced in 1930. Listed in 2007.

The Main Hall of Shichisho Shrine in Nagoya's Minami Ward was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2018. Originally founded in the Heian period with seven deities from Atsuta Shrine, the Taisho-era hall features rare nagare-zukuri architecture with a hinoki-bark roof — a combination that survived WWII bombings and is now extremely rare in Nagoya. Visitors can also enjoy a 1,000-year-old sacred camphor tree and beautiful seasonal goshuin stamps.

Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, is an ancient Shikinaisha listed in the Heian-era Engishiki shrine register. Its Saimon-den, a ceremonial prayer hall built around 1917, features a distinctive intersecting roofline that defines the shrine's sacred frontage. Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2024, this Taisho-era hall is part of a remarkable ensemble of six registered buildings including an exquisitely carved main hall and a charming Benten hall beside a spring-fed pond.

A shrine office of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. At 69 square metres it is the largest of the 6 buildings here, and its plan reads like a house.

A worship hall of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Open on all 4 sides, it shows its brackets, doubled rafters and latticed coffered ceiling.

A screen fence of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Only 3.3 metres long, it blocks the sightline along the approach, a form particular to Owari.

A one-bay sanctuary of 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Just 5.2 square metres, it stacks a dormer gable over a cusped canopy and is carved throughout.

Discover the Iwase Bunko Storehouse in Nishio, Aichi — a nationally registered tangible cultural property built around 1919. This striking brick archive once protected over 80,000 rare books and stands as a symbol of one philanthropist's devotion to public learning.

A registered cultural property in Nishio, Aichi, this small wooden hall opened around 1925 as the Iwase Bunko children's library, its windows set low for children.

Nomasaki, Aichi's oldest lighthouse, has stood on the Chita Peninsula since 1921. Its rare unreinforced concrete form earned cultural-property listing in 2022.

The Banjo Brewery Former Rice Milling Workshop in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a Taisho timber building of 125 square meters with a brick chimney, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a Taisho household storehouse of 93 square meters, boarded below and black plastered above, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery White Rice Warehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a small Taisho storehouse of 46 square meters with an inspection room, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery Detached Quarters in Otakacho, Nagoya, are Taisho sukiya rooms with a raised alcove copying Zangetsutei and a small tea room, from 2007.