Taishō
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Osa Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a 1915 depot that keeps its ticket window and parcels counter, with a 77-meter stone platform, registered in 2014.
Harima-Shimosato Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a compact 1918 depot entered from the gable end, with a 53-meter stone platform, registered in 2014.
A 1915 timber privy at Hokkeguchi Station on the Hojo Railway: four rooms 1 meter square under an off-center gable roof, registered with the station in 2014.
Hokkeguchi Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a 1915 timber depot of 85 square meters with a 67-meter stone platform, registered in 2014, and how to visit.
A 1926 timber house in Sanda, Hyogo, with arched south windows and a corbelled corner. Attributed to Nishimura Isaku, it was registered nationally in December 2000.
The 1920 fermentation warehouse of the Honke Monzenya brewery in Shiso, Hyogo, registered in 2024. A timber ramp and hoisting hatch still map the brewing workflow.
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.
A late-Taisho barn 22 m long on the east side of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with a sleeping room at one end and white-over-dark walls; registered 2009.
A gate of 1922 on the east side of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with side wickets, a coffered ceiling, a transom and frog-leg strut; registered 2009.
A 1918 two-storey clothing storehouse at the Yano Family Residence in Itami, built on the stone revetment of an irrigation channel. Registered in 2024.
A late Taisho roofed wall closing the northeast corner of the Yano Family Residence in Itami: 16 meters long, with brackets and inner buttresses. Registered 2024.
The main house of the Yamada family near Takarazuka-Minamiguchi Station, built in 1921, is a modern Japanese house in an early villa district, now owned by the city.
The front gate of Yutoya Ryokan in Kinosaki, Hyogo, built in 1926, has thick concrete posts in rust-red gravel set with cobbles, and slim posts carrying its eaves.
The old building of Ryotei Bunichiro in Miki, Hyogo, a timber restaurant inn of 1924 in the lanes of the old castle town, has a shoin-style hall and varied rooms.
The new building of Ryotei Bunichiro in Miki, Hyogo, an early Showa guest wing behind the old inn, has five sukiya-style rooms with umbrella and wicker ceilings.
The former Tsujikawa Post Office in Fukusaki, Hyogo, built in 1923, is a Western-style timber post office with clapboard walls and a ceiling with the 〒 mark.
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.
The 1919 Tatsumi storehouse at the southeast corner of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a round gable window, round tiles and stone base.
The 1919 Great Barn on the east edge of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum: two joined buildings with an earthen floor and a mezzanine at one end.