Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1917 for the Fourth Higher School in Kanazawa, this archery hall uses a Western roof truss to clear its whole frontage of columns for a line of archers.

Built around 1908 in snowbound Takada, this studio glazed its whole north roof to catch even daylight. Moved to Meiji Mura in 1982, registered in 2004.

Built around 1897 and moved twice before reaching Museum Meiji-mura, this two-story timber schoolhouse wraps an arcade of segmental arches around its ground floor.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea house of about 1877, built in a Kyoto garden and now at Museum Meiji-mura, where sliding doors open the room onto a tiled earth floor.

The foyer and lobby of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1923 Imperial Hotel, moved from Tokyo to Museum Meiji-mura, where carved stone and terracotta line a three-story atrium.

An iron workshop of 1889 from Shinbashi Station in Tokyo, rebuilt at Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama. Its columns, trusses and window sashes were all cast in Japan.

Built about 1872 as a locomotive repair shop at Shinbashi Station, its iron shipped from Liverpool. It now holds the Machinery Pavilion at Museum Meiji-mura, Aichi.

Step onto the Tendō Spectacle Bridge at Meiji-mura, a graceful 1887 stone arch bridge originally built in Yamagata's Tendō. Crafted from local Yamadera stone with a distinctive horizontal deck inspired by Roman aqueducts, it stands as a quiet masterpiece of Meiji-era civil engineering preserved in Aichi's open-air museum.

Originally guarding the Marunouchi south plaza of Tokyo Station, this 1914 octagonal police box mirrors Tatsuno Kingo's iconic station design. Now preserved at Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi.

Tucked into the Japanese Garden of Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi, the Tokyo School for the Blind Porte-cochère is a registered tangible cultural property that preserves the elegantly designed entrance porch of a 1910 Tokyo school building. Three free-standing arches, refined plant and geometric ornament, and half-timber detailing capture the artistic peak of late Meiji school architecture.

The 1911 front block of the Meiji government's central library in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Okuma Yoshikuni, with four Doric half-columns under a carved pediment.

A wing of 1910 added behind an 1889 settlement house in Nagasaki, now at Museum Meiji-Mura. A western room, two tatami rooms, a corridor treated as half outdoors.

A colonial house of 1889 moved from the Nagasaki foreign settlement to Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi. Veranda posts, a plaster-ridged roof, restored wood-grain doors.

One of four ornamental lamp standards from the bridge at the Imperial Palace gate, cast in Germany in 1888 and re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi in 1965.

One of nine timber wards built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo by Katayama Tokuma, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.

A timber lavatory block of 10 square meters, built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.

Meiji Village Hawaii Immigrant Assembly Hall was built in Hilo around 1889 for Japanese immigrants, moved to Meiji Mura in 1969, and registered in 2004.

Meiji Village Handa Azumayu Bathhouse, a port town sento built at Kamezaki in Handa around 1910 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1980, was registered in 2004.

Discover the Meiji-mura Brazilian Immigrant House, a registered tangible cultural property originally built in 1919 in São Paulo, Brazil, by Japanese immigrants. Now preserved at the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi, this unique wooden house blends Japanese carpentry with Brazilian materials, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the pioneering spirit of Japanese emigrants.

Meiji Village Sixth Infantry Regiment Barracks, built in Nagoya Castle in 1873 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1965, is a rare garrison era block registered in 2004.

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