Meiji

The oldest building on the Kitaokada estate in Ono, Gifu: an early Meiji annex with a tea room and writing alcove, the only one older than the 1891 Nobi quake.

Pseudo-Western clinic of 1904 in Gujo Hachiman, with an Ionic-columned porch, mortar corners imitating stone and pedimented sash windows. Open as a city museum.

The Miyagawa farmhouse at the Gifu Prefectural Museum in Seki, a thatched house of about 1890, was moved in 1987 from Tokuyama Village before the dam flooded it.

An 1875 shop and home on the old road in Takada, Yoro, Gifu, with a 19-metre frontage and black plaster above lattices; oldest of seven listed brewery buildings.

The 1895 main house of the Goto family on the old Gujo Kaido in Gifu City, with six rooms in two rows and finely crafted transoms and fittings. Registered in 2021.

A tiny early-Meiji shrine for Jizo on the Goto family property in Gifu City, only 0.4 m² yet built with a curved head tie, bracket blocks and a kaerumata strut.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Service Gate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, built in 1897, is the oldest of five registered buildings, its board doors bound in splayed iron straps.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Detached Wing in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1912 reception wing of two 8-mat rooms with a tokonoma and shelves, set behind a walled garden.

The Shimizuya Hara Family Residence Main House is a large late-Meiji townhouse in Magome on the Nakasendo, with a latticed shop front and heavy exposed beams inside.

The Shimizuya Hara Family Residence Storehouse in Magome on the Nakasendo is a late-Meiji earthen storehouse with white plaster walls and a boarded base.

The main house of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, from about the early Meiji era, has carved beams under its lattice windows and a sukiya-style room.

The west storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, held rice and goods; set on a high cobble base against floods, its openings bear carved lintels.

The east storehouse of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, kept swords and porcelain; it stands on a cobble base about 2 metres high with fine plaster walls.

The annex of the Shomura family in Gujo Hachiman, Gifu, used as retirement rooms, sets a simple sukiya-style tatami room on a high cobble base by its storehouses.

Shinryuji Temple Bell Tower in Gifu was built in 1898 by a pupil of the Main Hall carpenter: an open one-bay frame of inward-leaning posts on a random-stone base.

Built around 1881 by Kasahara Jisuke, Shinryuji Temple Main Hall in Gifu has a classic Shin plan, a long arched beam that spans a column-free hall, and gilded ranma.

Main building of 1880 at the Senzairo inn in Yoro Park with a carriage porch, a 28-mat upstairs hall and a bathroom of marble patterned to evoke the Yoro Falls.

A brick aqueduct bridge in Mino, Gifu, carrying part of the 4.9-kilometre headrace of the Nagaragawa Power Plant, in operation since 1910. One of nine Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in the plant complex, the bridge shows late-Meiji Japan absorbing European hydroelectric engineering through local brick and granite craftsmanship.

Built in 1910, this intake on the middle Nagara River in Gujo City still feeds Japan's oldest hydroelectric installation on the river. Five segmental arches with granite voussoirs and an English-bond brick wall mark a key Meiji-era industrial heritage site.

Built in 1910, this brick gate (5.5 m wide, 2.4 m high) features granite-capped pillars and flared brick steps facing the Nagara River. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2000 and designated Modernization Industrial Heritage in 2007, it still serves as the working entrance to one of Japan's earliest hydroelectric plants.