Meiji

The Former Ominato Waterworks in Mutsu, Aomori, built by the navy in 1902 to 1910 and designated in 2009, keep a stone arch dam and brick tank in Suigenchi Park.

Built in 1907 by banker Tsushima Gen'emon, this 19-room wooden mansion in Kanagi, Aomori, is novelist Dazai Osamu's birthplace and an Important Cultural Property.

Shiriyasaki Lighthouse at the north-east tip of Shimokita, built in 1876 under Richard Henry Brunton, was Tohoku's first Western lighthouse, a 32.8 m brick tower.

A 1904 timber bank in Hirosaki, Aomori, an Important Cultural Property since 1972, the masterpiece of local carpenter Horie Sakichi, with a central lookout.

The Hirosaki Gakuin Foreign Missionary House, built in 1906 for Methodist women missionaries, is an Important Cultural Property with an octagonal spire.

Ishiba Ryokan in Hirosaki, Aomori, an inn of 1879, sets two hip-and-gable wings in a staggered line, its glass and balustrades bearing the name of the house.

Built in 1897 for the Izumiyama family of Hachinohe, this Aomori house borrows shrine carpentry for its porch and gained a daylit reception wing in 1919.

Sataki Bunko-gura in Sannohe, Aomori, is a black-plastered storehouse of 1893, the oldest building on the plot. An ink inscription fixes its month of completion.

Shin-Mutsu Ryokan Main Building in Hachinohe, Aomori: a former pleasure-quarter house of about 1897, later an inn, with a skylit stairwell and Y-shaped stair.