Taishō

Completed in 1917 for Count Matsudaira on the third bailey of Takamatsu Castle, this villa hides Western roof trusses above its 142-mat hall. Designated 2012.

Discover the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Koji Storehouse, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Taisho era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. Explore its unique double-wall construction designed for koji fermentation and the island's 400-year soy sauce brewing tradition.

Explore the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Press Room and Operation Room, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Taisho era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa. Discover the 180-year history of Yamatoichi soy sauce and the island's brewing heritage.

Built in 1919, the Ogijima Lighthouse gate and wall join concrete posts to andesite and brick some 82 meters long, capped in Aji granite. A plain, weighty entrance.

Discover the Kamada Kyosaikai Local History Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Sakaide, Kagawa. Built in 1922 as one of Japan's earliest reinforced concrete libraries, this Taisho-era gem houses 60,000 historical artifacts including Important Cultural Properties related to the scientist Kume Michika.

Kamebishi's workshop in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Taisho building, two stories with a three-story end that once pasteurized soy sauce; it is the tallest here.

The No. 12 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is the smallest of the 18, marked by an asymmetric maneki roof, charred-cedar boards and drip tiles.

The No. 8 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a long late-Taisho moromi store on granite footings, holding twenty square vats on the western plot.

Kakumeikan, the former Bottling Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a single-storey wooden building of the Taisho era, now used as a concert hall.

The Kawatsuru Museum at Kawatsuru brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a small Taisho-era earthen storehouse, relocated around 1955 and now showing the brewery's old tools.

The Koji Storehouse at Kawatsuru Sake Brewery in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose upstairs koji room is still used to make koji today.

The West Brewery at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a large two-storey earthen storehouse of 1918, its long, window-lined west wall a landmark seen from the town.

The Filtration Storehouse at Kawatsuru in Kan-onji, Kagawa, is a two-storey earthen building of 1914 whose matched eaves complete the brewery's north frontage.

A 1914 single-room wooden hall in Kan-onji, Kagawa, lit from a raised monitor roof and framed with an exposed Western truss, with curved braces cut as an accent.

Built in 1914 as a county agricultural experiment station in Kan-onji, Kagawa, this symmetrical wooden Western-style building now houses a cafe open to all.

The 1912 main house of the Ishii soy estate in Noma, Shodoshima: an irimoya range with an earthen floor, raised rooms and black plaster walls of quiet dignity.

A small 1915 earthen storehouse on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima: charred cedar, namako plaster and white eaves on a stone base, registered as hard to copy.

The 1915 gatehouse of the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima runs 17 metres by the main house, skirt roofs giving a half-loft look, called the core of the estate.

Discover the Former Goten Water Source Office in Takamatsu, a beautifully preserved Taisho-period Western-style building registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Free admission, photogenic architecture, and a fascinating window into Japan's modernization history.

Just south of the main building and facing west, this gabled tile-roofed hall began as Passenger Shelter No.3 for group travellers, later walled in as a display space.