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.

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.

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.

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.