Meiji
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A Meiji-period household shrine of 0.31 m² in a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji: copper roof, granite base, round posts inside and square posts in front.
An 1892 guest wing of a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: two tatami rooms with an alcove, a writing bay and a transom carved with rabbits on waves. Registered 2009.
Kitano Monogatarikan in Kobe, the former Shea House of 1907, is a small clapboarded Western house with an oriel window, moved here after the Hanshin earthquake.
The former Kaizaki Clinic in Ikuno, Asago, Hyogo, built around 1887, is a small Western-style clinic on the old highway with shutters and a heavy timber cornice.
Where the Yoshikawa plot meets the road in Ikuno, Asago City, this 19-square-metre earthen storehouse of 1872 holds one tall room under a separate roof. Free entry.
A 2-storey Meiji gatehouse at a Takeda sake brewery, rising between two storehouses, with a gateway below and rooms above where the brewers lodged. Registered 2015.
Twin Meiji rice stores at a Takeda sake brewery, one for brown and one for polished rice, with namako tiles to the street and washed stone inside. Registered 2015.
A Meiji earthen storehouse at a Takeda brewery where pressed sake was aged, 21 m long, framed with a king post truss unlike the press house next door. Listed 2015.
A late Meiji sake merchant's house on Takeda's main street, with timber lattices, a plastered upper floor, a clerestory and firewalls. Registered 2015; now a hotel.
A 25 m Meiji earthen workhouse at a Takeda sake brewery that once held a koji room and the sake press, its long white wall facing the castle hill. Registered 2015.
A small Meiji gate and 9.7 m street wall at a Takeda sake brewery, finished to match the house's reception room, with a lattice transom. Registered 2015.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence North Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse with round windows on a flood-proof stone base by the Minogawa; registered 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence West Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse on the plot next door, with a trapezoid anteroom; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence Annex, Miki, Hyogo: a two-storey Meiji guest wing with an alcove room and verandas facing two gardens; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence East Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a tiny Meiji tool store called the six-mat storehouse, with namako tile walls; registered in 2002.
Former Tamaoki Family Residence Corridor, Miki, Hyogo: a 10-meter Meiji walkway with a copper roof, open to the courtyard, with bath and toilet; registered 2002.
The Western-style house of the former Muto family villa at Maiko, Kobe, built in 1906, has a round balcony facing the sea and a complex roof of natural slate.
Built in 1888 for the Nanakamaya merchants of Hamasaka, this timber townhouse keeps nine tatami rooms behind a lattice front and now opens daily as a town museum.
The former Wadamisaki Lighthouse, rebuilt in iron in 1884 and now in Suma Beach Park, Kobe, is Japan's oldest iron lighthouse, called the Red Lighthouse of Suma.
A mid-Meiji stable by the front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: 3.9 by 4.1 metres, with cattle kept below, servants above, and plain clay walls.