Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A late Meiji barbershop moved from Tokyo to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with the 2 upstairs rooms where Ishikawa Takuboku lived.
A wooden prison cell house of 1888 moved from Maebashi to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with chestnut lattice enclosing 9 cells.
An 1888 schoolhouse by the engineer Shimizu Yoshiya, built in Tsu, reused in Nabari, moved to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2003.
An 1886 courtroom moved from Miyazu to Meiji Mura: raised judge's bench, open eaves, arched door, plus admission, hours and access details for visitors.
A 1912 substation for the Nagoya Electric Railway, now at Meiji Mura: arched openings, corner buttresses, an exposed queen post truss, with hours and access.
The Sendagi house rented in turn by Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki, now at Meiji Mura: a middle Meiji home where I Am a Cat was written, with visitor details.
A 1907 bank in Aizu-Wakamatsu built as a fireproof earthen storehouse, its black-plastered shell enclosing a full-height hall with fluted columns and a gallery.
One of six wrought-iron spans from Japan's first double-track railway bridge, built 1877 and rebuilt at Museum Meiji-Mura with its Liverpool maker's plates intact.
The 1930 timber station building at the former terminus of the Meitetsu Mikawa Line in Toyota, Aichi, with a waiting room, office and clapboard walls.
The early Showa platform of the former Nishinakagane Station in Toyota, Aichi, a straight 36-metre granite structure without a canopy among the fields.
The 1927 timber station building of the former Mikawa-Hirose Station in Toyota, Aichi, with an open waiting room and a distinctive battened base. Registered.
The 1927 platform of the former Mikawa-Hirose Station in Toyota, Aichi, a stone platform raised in concrete that curves gently along the Yahagi River.
An early Taisho storehouse of a cotton wholesaler in Okada, Chita, Aichi, with a raised floor and plastered walls; now a weaving workshop for Chita cotton.
A late Edo townhouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Dated 1855 by its ridge tablet, it has a seven-ken front, end fire walls and a lattice bay. Registered in 2008.
A reception wing of about 1902 in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Three rooms run inward: a tea room, an antechamber, then a dais room said to follow the Omotesenke Zangetsutei.
An early Showa storehouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Its white plastered gable faces the old highway beside the long eaves of the main house. Registered in 2008.
Yahira Shrine Sacred Fence is a 28-metre roofed board fence raised in 1918 around the shrine's 1700 sanctuary in Shinshiro, Aichi, kept low so its roof still shows.
Yahira Shrine Main Hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, was raised in 1700 for three merged deities, its inner sanctum split three ways behind three doors. Registered in 2013.
A timber gate of 1908 in Kanie, Aichi. Brackets carry a tiled gabled roof over a 3.8 meter opening, with plastered wing walls. Listed 2011; visible from the road.
A late Edo farmhouse in Kanie, Aichi: thatch over a tiled pent roof, 14 meters wide, built by the Owari yotsudate method. Registered 2011, privately owned, not open.
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