Meiji

Built around 1904 on a silkworm-egg fortune, this Date landmark joins a Western exterior and a semi-octagonal tower with Japanese parlors finished in rare hardwoods.

Discover the Former Date District Office in Koori, Fukushima — a nationally designated Important Cultural Property built in 1883. Explore this stunning giyōfū (pseudo-Western) wooden building blending Japanese and Western architectural styles in the heart of Tohoku.

An early Meiji earthen storehouse in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. Its tiled roof stands on posts clear of the mud walls, keeping rain off and air moving.

A mid-Meiji gate in Okuma, Fukushima, registered in 2019. It is built over the stone bridge across the farmstead channel, so entering and crossing become one step.

A Meiji-era clay-walled storehouse set deep in an inn's grounds in Minamiaizu, Fukushima, its okiyane roof still scarred by the 1934 Tajima fire. Registered 1999.

Standing along the historic Salt Road in Tochikubo, Minamisoma City, the Ogaike Family Residence East Storehouse is a late Meiji-period rice warehouse. This nationally registered tangible cultural property features namakokabe lattice walls, ornate plaster reliefs including a water-wheel crest, and together with its neighbouring Middle Storehouse and gate forms one of Fukushima's most intact merchant streetscapes.

The Former Yoshida Family Residence Main Building in Miharu, Fukushima, is an 1895 silk merchant's sukiya house of rare woods, registered in 2020, open free.

Shiunkaku at the Former Yoshida Family Residence in Miharu, Fukushima, is an 1895 storehouse sitting room with dragon carvings and red lacquer, reopened 2023.

Built in 1908 next to a cocoon dealer's storehouse at Koori, Fukushima, this low tiled house holds four rooms, a tokonoma alcove and a projecting bath wing.

A 1908 earthen-walled shop storehouse on the old Oshu Kaido in Koori, Fukushima. Built by a cocoon dealer, it keeps its suriage-do shutters and a cocoon loft above.

At the end of a Fukushima hot spring village stands a thatched inn of 1871, still trading, its hearth room open to blackened beams, the source said to rise below.

A tiny household guardian shrine at the Sasa Masamune sake brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1886, it was one of two buildings spared by the June 2026 fire.

The shop-residence at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A timber house of the early Meiji era, it held the family's shop and home. Burned in June 2026.

Built in 1873 in Fukushima City, this thatched farmhouse turns a stepped kabuto gable to the east and a hipped irimoya to the west. Registered nationally in 2013.

Raised in 1875 in Fukushima City, this two-storey earthen storehouse guarded the household's deeds and ledgers behind thick clay walls under white lime plaster.

The Jananohana Goten Kurazashiki in Motomiya City, Fukushima Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property renowned for its exceptionally lavish interior within a traditional Tohoku-style earthen storehouse. Built as part of a wealthy landowner's Meiji-era villa over a decade of meticulous construction, it features painted screens by Kano-school artists and rare timbers, standing as a unique architectural treasure within the scenic Ja no Hana Gardens.

Nakamuraya Ryokan Shinkan is a three-story dozō-zukuri (storehouse-style) inn built around 1896 in the Yuzawa district of Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima City. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era building features an open, airy design that contrasts beautifully with its Edo-period companion wing. Restored after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, it continues to welcome guests as a living piece of architectural heritage.

The United Church of Christ in Japan Wakamatsu Sakaemachi Church is a wooden Gothic-style church built in 1911 in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, the church is celebrated for its elegant white clapboard exterior and pointed spire, and is renowned as the place where the world-famous bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi was baptized at the age of eighteen.

Built about 1874 on a corner of the old Oshu Kaido in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, this small earthen storehouse still keeps the lift-up shutters of a working sake shop.

Built between 1898 and 1912 in Aizuwakamatsu's former samurai quarter, this hipped-roof house hides a Japanese-Western reception room behind its gabled porch.