Meiji
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The larger of two storehouses at the Takinami house in Sabae, built around 1887: 15.2 m long, white lime plaster over a stone-faced base, stepped earthen shutters.
Built around 1887 on the old Hokuriku Kaido in Sabae, this townhouse pairs two tiers of projecting eaves and end firewalls with a Western-style rear. Registered 2013
A small 1887-era storehouse at the Takinami house in Sabae, 31 square meters, with black plaster cornices on white walls and a big balance-weight emblem on its door.
A granite lighthouse 6.0 metres across and 8.0 metres high, built in 1881 at the tip of the Tsuruga Peninsula, Fukui, and registered in 2017, crowned by a domed lantern.
This 1912 shop in Echizen began as two wooden storeys and gained a third through two rebuilds. Four wide windows span the upper floors. Exterior views only.
A Meiji-period earthen-walled sake store in Ono, Fukui, standing south of the shop. The Agency for Cultural Affairs singles it out for its iron eaves braces.
The smallest of five registered buildings at the Hanagaki brewery in Ono, Fukui. Built in 1889, this 41-square-metre rice store opens onto the block's back drain.
A Meiji wooden townhouse at a market crossroads in Ono, Fukui, registered in 2001. It keeps its tower-like roof monitor and still trades as the Hanagaki sake shop.
Storehouses in the Nishino compound, Echizen: an 1889 large store with triple doors, linked by a middle store to a Showa new store in black plaster; registered 2017.
A tea house of about 1909 in the Nishino papermakers' compound, Echizen, Fukui, finished in clear and black lacquer with a bare-wood alcove post; registered in 2017.
Baba Family Residence Main House, Echizen City, Fukui, dates from about 1891. Its gable shows exposed posts and tie beams. Registered in 2021; exterior views only.
The Baba Family Residence Storehouse in Echizen City, Fukui, was built in 1892. Plaster posts and a lintel frame its doorway. Registered 2021; exterior views only.
The 1888 rice store at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui: a plastered two-storey storehouse joined by a low shed with a raised ridge vent, on the old road corner.
The 1889 brewing range at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, holding the old rice mill, rice-steaming room and a mashing hall with tanks below and a koji room above.
A 1908 two-storey brewing storehouse at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, clad in clapboard to the eaves and held up inside by one freestanding post over its tanks.
The 1889 shop and residence of Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, facing the old road to Ichijodani, with a shop in front and ten-mat formal rooms with kumiko transoms.
The Yuasa Family Residence Main House in Takahama, Fukui, is an 1892 townhouse registered in 2025, with plastered eaves, wing walls and fittings for clay fire doors.
The Yuasa Family Residence Treasure Storehouse in Takahama, Fukui, is an 1881 storehouse moved in 1933, with a kuramae, a raised entrance roof and sloping beams.
Yoganji Temple Priests' Quarters in Echizen City is a gabled kitchen and residence by the main hall, its east gable framed by great arched beams in white plaster.
Yoganji Temple Goten Hall in Echizen City holds a raised dais where the head of Hongwanji sat, facing a sunken garden arranged to be seen whole from the rooms.