Meiji

Discover the Former Ishikawa Prefecture Second Junior High School Main Building, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property in Kanazawa. Built in 1899, this colonial-style wooden schoolhouse known as the Three Spires now houses the Kanazawa Lifestyle Museum.

A red brick schoolhouse in Kanazawa, completed in 1891, was designed by Yamaguchi Hanroku, who trained in France. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969.

Discover the Akakura Family Residence Main House, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic Uomachi fish merchant district of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. Learn about its architectural heritage and the castle town legacy of the Noto Peninsula.

A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.

Standing in the wooded precincts of Enuma Shrine in Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, the Chikkeikan is a graceful two-story timber residence built in 1900 as the country home of Maeda Toshika, the fourteenth and last lord of the Daishōji Domain. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2008, it preserves the formal reception spaces of an upper-rank samurai household—an upper chamber with a tokonoma alcove, a great hall, tatami corridors and a wide veranda—rendered in the refined craftsmanship of late-Meiji carpentry. Together with the neighboring Chōryūtei pavilion (an Important Cultural Property) and the city-designated stroll garden, it offers visitors a quietly atmospheric introduction to the heritage of Kaga's former castle town.

The Kitaōji Rosanjin Former Residence in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating from the early Meiji era. In 1915, the young Rosanjin stayed here to carve signboards and first encountered ceramics. Now open as 'Iroha Sōan,' visitors can explore his workroom, study, hearth room, traditional garden, and storehouse gallery.

The Kitaoji Rosanjin Residence Storehouse is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Built in the Meiji era, this earthen storehouse is where the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist Kitaoji Rosanjin stayed in 1915 and discovered his artistic calling. Now open to the public as Iroha Sōan, visitors can explore the rooms where Rosanjin lived and view his ceramic works.

Shokoji's main hall in Hakusan, Ishikawa, a large Shin Buddhist sanctuary of 1898, has round columns and Inami-carved transoms; a registered cultural property.

Discover Shingyo-ji Temple Shoin, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Wakura Onsen, Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Originally built in 1909 as an attendants' pavilion for Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho), this rare surviving imperial rest building features exquisite uzukuri wood flooring and vibrant contemporary artwork.

Discover the Hatta Family Residence South Storehouse (Hatta-ke Jūtaku Minami-gura), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kanazawa's Imamachi district. This 1890 dozo-style storehouse preserves the rural heritage of the old Hokkoku Kaidō highway.