Taishō

This 1926 former court of appeals is the largest surviving public building of Sapporo soft stone. An Important Cultural Property, it now houses a free city museum.

Completed in 1916 and designated in 1983, this brick church in Motomachi, Hakodate carries six cupolas and a bell tower ranked among Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

This 1922 timber kindergarten in Obihiro, Hokkaido, sets an octagonal domed playroom at the centre of a square plan. An Important Cultural Property since 2017.

Shaonkan, a 1922 wooden annex at Iai Gakuin in Hakodate, was registered in 2005. Its over-burnt brick plinth and banded sliding windows echo the main hall beside it.

A Taisho house in Hobetsu, Mukawa, built by an oil prospector turned farmer from timber off his own land, dismantled in 2003 and rebuilt beside the town museum.

Built in 1919 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, this 57-square-metre stone building housed the town's first bank until 1966. Registered as a cultural property in February 2002.

A 77-metre soft-stone wall in central Sapporo, built in 1926 and registered in 2010 with the house, storehouse and gate. Its edo-kiri masonry shapes the street.

The Third Storehouse closely resembles its neighbour the Second, yet its king-post roof truss and raised upper floor set it apart. Built in 1921, registered in 2006.

The Koji-Making House is the newest of the registered buildings, built in 1922. A plain brick structure, it holds the koji room in one corner. Registered in 2006.

The largest brick warehouse at the Kobayashi Brewery in Hokkaido. Built in 1921, its gable windows, dentils and ridge tiles lend quiet ornament. Registered in 2006.

Completed in 1925 north of Asahikawa, this 592-square-metre timber hall has a karahafu-gabled entrance bay, a skirt roof with frog-leg struts and dense bracketing.

Built in 1925 in Nemuro, Hokkaido, Seiryuji Hondo was registered in 2024 for the lions, dragons and phoenixes carved on its porch by Kesen carpenter Hanawa Kikuzo.

Built in 1918 as the Hakodate sales office of Asano Cement, led by the legendary industrialist Asano Soichiro known as Japan's Cement King, this Western-style wooden building features an elegant European-inspired facade with tower-like projections, a fanlight entrance, and a balcony. Constructed by master carpenter Muraki Jinzaburo, who also built the Old Hakodate Ward Public Hall, the building was faithfully restored from a single historical photograph after years of abandonment, earning registration as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Built in Sapporo in 1926 for women missionaries, this small three-storey timber house sheds snow off a steep flaring roof. It joined the national register in 1998.

Only the central bay of Hakodate Normal School's 1914 main building survives, moved and kept by its graduates. Its lantern tower won registration in 2000.

Hongyoji Main Hall in Kushiro, Hokkaido is a 1925 Jodo Shinshu hall registered in 2025. Its mortar walls imitate cut stone; its porch beam ends are plasterwork.

Built in 1925 on an Asahikawa street corner, this house sets a battened timber Japanese wing against a roughcast Western one. Privately lived in, so exterior only.