Taishō
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Tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway under the Gunma-Tochigi border, 362 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, with a brick arch and six refuges.
Built in 1913 as a Bank of Japan deputy governor's villa and moved twice to Mt. Akagi, this refined house pairs tatami rooms with a Western parlour. Registered in 2025.
Raised in 1913 to keep a soy sauce brewer's account books safe from fire, this small plastered storehouse in Midori City, Gunma, was registered in 2013.
A c.1924 two-story house in Shimonita, Gunma, turning a gently curved hip-and-gable roof to the old highway, with a guest room upstairs. Registered in 2009.
A c.1924 brick firewall 7.3 meters high against the main house of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, with a raised udatsu-like end. Registered 2009.
A Taisho-era well house by the path to a headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a small tiled roof over a Yabuzuka stone well shaft topped with a granite curb.
A Taisho-era privy beside a headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a narrow tiled building on Yabuzuka stone footings with four tiny cubicles, the middle two toilets.
Concrete office building of about 1921 in Kiryu, Gunma, built by a weaving firm, with a stone-effect base, white tiles and Secession ornament over the door.
A late Taisho brick sake store in Maebashi, Gunma, registered in 2016, the last brewery building in the city centre and now the Maebashi Renga-gura arts venue.
A 28-square-meter dye house of 1919 pressed against the back of the mill office. Four roof skylights, glazed wall openings, a king post truss. Registered in 2015.
Kiryu's only brick-walled sawtooth weaving shed, its ridge raised in December 1919 and registered in 1998. English-bond brick from Fukaya, four bays left of six.
A brick gate of 1916 on the Kiryu campus of Gunma University, listed in 1998 for its design. Gothic canopies crown all four faces of each pier, with lamps above.
A 1922 weaving shed at the back of the Soga family plot in Kiryu: timber frame, coursed Oya stone walls and five sawtooth bays. Registered in 2006; exterior only.
Built in Tokyo in 1924 for Viscount Toki Akira and twice rebuilt in Numata, this German-influenced villa keeps its ox-eye dormer and two reception rooms.
Funded by Numata's silk-exporting Hoshino family and built in 1914 by carpenter Kosuge Konosuke, this clapboard chapel is Gunma's third oldest and is free to enter.
A Taisho-era brewing complex in Maebashi, Gunma. Its earthen-walled sakagura keeps both floors undivided for tall vats, with a kamaya east and oroshi lean-to south.
A 1923 machiya facing the old Sado highway in Maebashi, Gunma. Deep segai eaves shape its gabled front, and local residents now run it as HONMAYA, open weekends.
A 1913 brick warehouse in Maebashi, Gunma, 54 metres long in English bond, built to hold raw silk pledged against bank loans. Registered in 2004 and still in use.
A 1925 reception wing at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu: two tatami rooms with a tokonoma and writing alcove, its own porch, and a later role as an obi showroom.
The 1925 frontage of Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu: a 4.5-metre tiled gate with sliding doors and plastered side walls, flanked by 23 metres of board fence.