Taishō
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Built in 1925, the Sojiji Mukai Karamon is a cypress-bark gate with karahafu gables front and back and deep carving, opened only for ceremonies. Registered 2005.
The largest and latest of the five buildings, added around 1922 by second owner Hara Sankei. Its eastern part is built out over the sloping ground on tall posts.
The oldest of five thatched buildings in Hakone Gora Park, this farmhouse-style tea room by tea master Masuda Don’o has a sunken hearth and old salvaged timber.
The garden’s only non-tea building, a small bathhouse raised over a large natural boulder with a raw log frame, once the rock bath of the former mountain villa.
A grass-hut style tea room west of Hakuun-do, attributed to Ogi Rodo, with a tiny two-mat-plus-daime room and the unusual omission of a crawl-in door.
The waiting pavilion at the head of the garden path, its southeast corner cut away and spanned by a curved log with small rafters fanning into a decorative eave.
Built in 1918 as Baron Fujita Heitaro's villa and registered in 2001, Hakone Kowakien Kihinkan faces east so its glazed main room catches the moon over Myojogatake.
The older half of a Hakone inn at Gora, this late-Taisho timber building is linked to the main house by a corridor over the road. A ten-mat tsuzuki-ma survives.
Moved to the bank of the Sukumogawa in 1987, this low sukiya villa with cedar-bark wainscoting was registered in 2005 and now serves stone-milled soba.
A timber-framed stone storehouse of 1916 in Odawara, dated by an old photograph. Iron bands added after the 1923 earthquake still grip its grey walls, left exposed.
The Hirayama Bridge in Aikawa, Kanagawa, opened in 1913 with one steel and two timber trusses, all steel since 1926, is a 112-metre truss bridge, now for walkers.
The main building of Fujitaya Ryokan in Yugawara, Kanagawa, built in 1923, sets two timber wings along the river, their rooms finished with delicate latticework.
This small brick shelter of 1915 caps the distribution well at Yokohama's Nishiya plant, mirroring its twin across the reservoir. Opened to visitors in July 2026.
An Important Cultural Property film recording Onoe Matsunosuke—Japan's first movie star—performing the iconic "Farewell at Sakurai" before the future Emperor Shōwa at Japan's first motion picture exhibition in 1921. Only the second film ever designated nationally; a digitally restored version is freely available online, with related exhibits at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, Tokyo.