Meiji

Completed in 1912 in Akita City, this brick landmark pairs a Renaissance exterior by Yamaguchi Naoaki with a Baroque banking hall. Designated in 1994; 310 yen.

Built in 1882 for German engineers at the state-run Ani mine in Akita, this brick house with a wraparound veranda predates the Rokumeikan. Admission free.

Located in Omori-machi, Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, the Akagawa Family Residence Storehouse is a Meiji-era traditional kura registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. This single building embodies the refined craftsmanship of snow-country storehouse architecture and preserves the historic landscape of rural Akita at the foot of sacred Mount Horowa, offering visitors a glimpse into the understated dignity of everyday Japanese heritage.

An L-shaped thatched farmhouse of 1900 to 1903, moved from Tazawako in 1989 and rebuilt at Akita's agricultural science museum. Stable indoors, and free entry.

The Former Taikawasō is a Meiji-era wooden garden villa overlooking the Nishimonai River in Ugo Town, Akita Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, this elegant two-story building once hosted literary figures including haiku poet Kawahigashi Hekigotō. Now home to CAFE OHZAN's Forest Café, it blends historic charm with artisan confections in the heart of Bon dance country.

A small Meiji-era earthen storehouse in Masuda, Akita, with a three-step kakego-nuri fire door hung off-centre. Registered in 2009 for its place in the townscape.

Built in 1908, the north rice storehouse is the largest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, its roof laid continuous with the south store.

Built in 1881 as a resting place for Emperor Meiji's tour of the Ōu region, the Kitano rest house was later moved to the Nara estate, a belvedere rising from its roof.

Built in 1890, the zashiki storehouse at the former Nara estate carries an eight-mat reception room upstairs, serving both storage and hospitality at once.

Built in 1895 and joined to the main house until a 1966 restoration severed it, this wooden wing of the Nara estate holds a four-mat tea room on its upper floor.

Raised in 1874, the miso storehouse is the oldest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, with a copper maneki roof and curved rising beams above.

Built in 1893, the south rice storehouse shares a continuous roof with the north store, the earlier of the paired buildings that held the Nara family's rice.

Built in 1900 for one of Akita's three great landlord families, this registered house answers deep snow with a wide earth-floored passage lit from high windows.

Completed in 1869 and wrapped inside an outer sheath building, this 16.4-metre storehouse is an uchigura, the interior storehouse form of southern Akita.

A vast thatched Soto Zen hall at Yashima in Yurihonjo, rebuilt in 1880 after fire took the temple in the Boshin War. A ridge tag names carpenter Sasaki Mitsunobu.

The Workshop at Kunibanzai Shuzo, Araya, Akita, is a late-Meiji L-shaped timber hall linking the brewing rooms and main house: kettles south, pressing north.

Built in 1908 and eighteen ken long, this is the oldest and longest fermentation storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, its entrance a showcase of layered lime plasterwork.

This 1908 storehouse behind the Main House, the only two-storey vault at Kunibanzai Shuzo, began as a document store and now cultivates the brewery's yeast starter.

The brewery's rice store of about 1902 in Yurihonjo, Akita, singled out for the carved lintel over its earthen doors and now converted into a gallery.

Built around 1902 in Ishiwaki, Yurihonjo, this wooden merchant house sets Western detailing on its upper storey above a deep street eave. Registered in 1998.