Meiji

Ginrinso Former Main Building in Otaru is a late Meiji herring mansion moved from Yoichi in 1938. Registered in 2023, it holds a six-room hall and a large shrine.

Grill Ginrinso in Otaru began as herring storage, became a fisheries museum in 1941, and now serves French food. Registered in 2023 for its plastered latticed walls.

The Fifth Storehouse is the smallest in the row. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with a stone belt course and doorways on both gable ends. Registered in 2006.

The Rice-Steaming House is a single-story brick hall where brewing rice was steamed. A brick chimney rises at the north gable. Built in 1900, registered in 2006.

The Fourth Storehouse is the only one roofed with pantiles. Built in 1900 of Sapporo soft stone over timber, with stone eaves and gable verge. Registered in 2006.

The Sixth Storehouse ends the row, its only single-story warehouse. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with sliding doors front and back. Registered in 2006.

Built in 1902 for a fishing magnate on Hokkaido's Uchiura Bay, this 18-metre timber house pairs a deep segai eave with a full-length pent roof and a lattice screen.

At just 7.5 square metres, this 1908 open belfry at Shōgyōji in Akkeshi, Hokkaido, rests on four inward-leaning posts beside an 1799 main hall. Registered 2009.

Rising along the Sosei River in central Sapporo, the Sapporo Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan (formerly Sapporo Methodist Episcopal Church) is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1904. Built of local Sapporo soft stone over a wooden frame, its charming octagonal bell tower blends Romanesque and Gothic elements. This guide traces the church's origins in the Meiji era, when students inspired by William S. Clark founded Hokkaido's first Methodist community, and introduces its architectural highlights and nearby attractions.

Discover the Hakodate Chinese Memorial Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the only remaining late Qing Dynasty-style building in Japan. Built in 1910 by overseas Chinese merchants, this brick Guandi temple features exquisite nail-free construction and lavish interiors.

Built in 1901 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this former Sapporo college classroom sets a pilastered, pedimented front against plain hipped wings.

Built in 1902 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this compact two-story brick library stack rewards a close look at its clinker base and stepped gable coping.

Built in 1902 by Chujo Seiichiro, this T-shaped timber reading hall wears two rooftop lanterns and windows crowned by alternating triangular and segmental pediments.

Inside the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden stands the former home of John Batchelor, the Ainu-studies missionary: a trim clapboard house of 1898, moved here in 1905.

The office of Hokkaido University's Botanic Garden is the east wing of the old zoology-botany hall of 1901, moved here in 1942, its entrance crowned by a pediment.

Furukawa Memorial Hall of 1909 was the forestry classroom of Tohoku Imperial University's agriculture college: a Renaissance timber hall with a mansard roof and turret.