Taishō

Completed in 1925 as a kimono retailer's Kobe branch, the Matsuo Building on Motomachi carries triple arched windows and Expressionist curves from the Taisho era.

Built in 1921 during the Taishō period, the Yamada Family Residence Main House is a beautifully preserved Japanese-style villa in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture. Registered in 1999 as the city's first nationally registered tangible cultural property, this elegant wooden dwelling features a hip-and-gable tile roof, lattice-windowed study, and a distinctive north-facing contemplative garden, capturing the refined residential culture of Takarazuka's early development as an upscale suburb.

Discover the Yutouya Ryokan Front Gate and Wall in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1926. Explore this yakuimon-style gate with inventive reinforced-concrete pillars finished in rust-red pebble washout, gracing the entrance of a beloved inn founded in 1688 and rebuilt after the 1925 North Tajima Earthquake.

Ryotei Bunshiro Kyukan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. This pre-war culinary ryokan features a stately shoin-style banquet hall and individually designed guest rooms showcasing sukiya and soan aesthetics, with remarkable ceiling craftsmanship including umbrella and wickerwork designs.

Ryotei Bunshiro Shinkan is an early Showa-period tatami room building located in the former castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it features five guest rooms with distinctive sukiya-style designs including umbrella and woven bamboo-strip ceilings, preserving the refined atmosphere of pre-war Japanese cuisine-focused inns.

Discover the Former Tsujikawa Post Office in Fukusaki, Hyogo — a 1923 wooden pseudo-Western building with charming postal-mark decorations, now home to a yokai-themed book cafe and boutique inn near the childhood home of folklorist Yanagita Kunio.

A village of oil lamps financed this brick hydroelectric plant in 1922. It stopped in 1963, then dinosaur fossils found in the river below revived it as a museum.

A weatherboarded Western house of 1918 at the eastern edge of Kobe's Kitano preservation district, registered in 1999. Still lived in and closed to visitors.

Tatsumi-gura, the southeast storehouse of the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Cut stone base, boarded lower wall, round gable window.

The Onaya at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Two joined frames, an earthen floor, a mezzanine and exposed-post plaster walls.

Kita-gura at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Its eaves floor runs continuously with the covered passage from the main house.