Taishō
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Built in 1920 by Yamanaka & Co.'s Kyoto branch to show and store antiques, this brick hall with concrete floors keeps a silk-lined ceiling and a skylit hall.
A 1917 machiya-style sentō in Maizuru's Yoshiwara fishing town. Registered cultural property (2021) with original pine beams beside the 'Oriental Venice' canal.
Built around 1925 as the headquarters of Nikkosha, one of Kyoto's earliest automobile distributors, the Fuji Rabbit Building blends classical columns, tire-motif stained glass, and a sun-shaped roof tower a short walk from Kyoto Station.
On the same plot as Kyoto's famous Funaoka Onsen public bath stands the wooden two-story inn building that started it all. Built c. 1923 with a 1930 renovation, the Former Funaokarō preserves the small banquet rooms and second-floor hall of a Taishō-era ryokan, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in July 2003.
A 29-square-meter wooden storefront tucked beside Funaoka Onsen in northern Kyoto, the former barbershop is an early example of kanban-kenchiku (signboard architecture) built around 1923. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2003 alongside three other buildings of the same bathhouse complex.
A registered wooden house of 1921 in Hanazono, Kyoto, built for a businessman home from Russia. Traditional outside, with a modern middle corridor. Private home.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Ginjo Brewhouse in Fushimi, Kyoto: a small Taisho-era timber brewhouse whose diagonally boarded gables carry a tortoiseshell-shaped vent.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Sakagura Hall in Fushimi, Kyoto: a 1924 storehouse, once the junmai brewhouse, clad in black boards to match the Daikokugura along the river.
Matsumoto Sake Brewery Daikokugura in Fushimi, Kyoto: a 1923 storehouse of three 40-metre earthen-walled bays joined side by side, its board-clad wall on the river.
A Taisho-period hall at Muko Shrine in Kyoto, brought from Osaka around 1967. One bay at the front and two at the back, it uses square posts rather than round ones.
Kankyuan, the one-and-daime-mat tea room at Mushakoji Senke in Kyoto, rebuilt in 1926, with a narrow board set between guest and host mats. Registered 2004.
A 1913 timber hall at Gion Kobu Kaburenjo with a 132-tatami stage room facing a pond garden, now the Gion Kagai Art Museum with Kyomai dance upstairs. Visitor tips.
Restaurant Kikusui in Kyoto, built in 1926 for a pioneer of Western cuisine in the city, is a five-storey concrete building in an Expressionist style with a tower.
Wakanoyu in west Maizuru, Kyoto, a public bath of 1923, has a gabled entrance block between two bath wings and a Western-style front of tile and washed finish.