Meiji

Discover the Shigeta Family Residence in Manno Town, Kagawa—a collection of six nationally registered cultural properties showcasing upper-class Meiji-era farming architecture. Explore the historic nagaya gate, main house, and connecting corridor along the ancient Hashikura pilgrimage road.

Built in 1878, the Batsujoden purification hall at Kotohira-gu became an Important Cultural Property in 2024, one of twelve shrine buildings on Mount Zozu in Kagawa.

Discover the Former Zentsuji Kaikosha, a Renaissance-style wooden building from 1903 in Kagawa Prefecture. Once an Imperial Japanese Army officers' club, this Important Cultural Property now welcomes visitors with free tours, a café, and elegant event spaces.

Discover Nabeshima Lighthouse, an Important Cultural Property on Nabeshima Island in Kagawa Prefecture. Designed by Richard Henry Brunton in 1872, this stone lighthouse is the oldest in the Seto Inland Sea and still guides ships through the Bisan Seto passage today.

Discover Okawa Sake Shop, a magnificent Meiji-era sake merchant's house in Zentsuji, Kagawa. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property features striking black plaster walls, ornamental kote-e reliefs, and a gently curved tile roof that evokes the prosperity of early 20th-century rural Japan.

Explore the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Fermenting Storehouse (Shikomi-gura), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Meiji era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa. Founded in 1844, this is the oldest soy sauce brewery on the island with over 180 years of brewing tradition.

Ogijima Lighthouse, located at the northern tip of Ogijima Island in the Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa Prefecture, is a rare unpainted granite lighthouse built in 1895. Designated as a national Important Cultural Property in 2026, it is one of only three unpainted lighthouses in Japan. Discover this stunning Aji granite beacon, the adjacent museum, seasonal daffodil fields, and the art-filled island culture of Ogijima.

A curving Aji-granite wall, 78 meters long, holds the seaward edge of the 1895 Ogijima Lighthouse. Its sloped tanizumi masonry has withstood a century of Seto storms.

Completed in 1895 beside the tower, this brick warehouse of 36 square meters held a rest room and a store under a king-post truss, its mortar walls scored like stone.

Built in 1895, this 85-square-meter brick residence housed the Ogijima keepers, its door topped by a segmental fanlight. Since 1994 it has been the lighthouse museum.

Discover the Osaka-ke Residence Nagayamon, a registered tangible cultural property in Ayagawa, Kagawa Prefecture. This imposing Meiji-era gatehouse with hip-and-gable roof preserves the heritage of rural Shikoku.

Kamebishi's pressing house in Hikita, Kagawa was once a merchant home; this early-Meiji building now presses fermented moromi into raw soy sauce.

The No. 1 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Meiji store that once held soybeans; its namako-kabe base and red-ochre walls shape the street.

The former No. 4 and No. 6 warehouses at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa are an early-Meiji pair meeting at a right angle, likely once a wholesaler's buildings.

Kamebishi's warehouse in Hikita, Kagawa is a two-story earthen store on granite footings, its west gable bearing the founding Okada family's oak-leaf crest.

Kamebishi's 24-meter koji house in Hikita, Kagawa holds five mezzanine chambers built for the mushiro-koji method the brewery alone still keeps in Japan.

Once a detached parlor, Kamebishi's storeroom in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Meiji building whose formal tiled roof marks the residential heart of the compound.

The No. 7 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a large late-Meiji moromi store holding sixteen round and three square wooden vats on the western plot.

The oldest building on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima, this 1885 soy shed holds a moromi cellar, a storehouse and a stone well: the brewery's working heart.

Discover Konpira Udon Sando-ten, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kotohira, Kagawa. This Meiji-era former ryokan serves authentic Sanuki udon on the approach to Kotohira-gu Shrine, blending historic architecture with living culinary tradition.