Meiji

Jingu Nogyokan at Ise opened in 1891 as Japan's first industrial museum. Its 1905 hall, echoing the Byodoin Phoenix Hall, is a rare timber work by Katayama Tokuma.

A two-story Meiji-period building at Nagatani-en, once a rice granary. Its plaster walls reveal the timber frame as ornament, and its height brings variation to the lane.

A Meiji-period building at Nagatani-en facing Exhibition Room 1, with an earthen-floor interior. Said to have begun as a stable, it serves as a gallery on the grounds.

A Meiji-period guest wing at Nagatani-en, joined to the main house by a roofed corridor and doubling as the passage to the villa. Two rooms open to a garden veranda.

In Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, an earthen shop storehouse joins a timber kuramae whose upper floor holds a sukiya tea room, giving a watchtower profile. Registered 2013.

A wooden single-storey house in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, grown in three Meiji phases. Its west gable is plain, its east end hipped-and-gabled. Registered in 2013.

The smallest of four registered buildings in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, at 8.5 square metres. A cobble base, board and plaster band shape its corner view. Listed 2013.

A late Meiji timber reception room with an attached earthen storehouse in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie. It ends a five-building frontage of plaster and board. Listed 2013.

Discover Fukuoka Shōyu-ten, a soy sauce brewery in Iga City, Mie Prefecture, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Explore its century-old cedar vats, rare Kirin-style press, and traditional artisan brewing since 1895.

Built in 1910 by a local forestry magnate in Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture, the Koueikan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcasing refined Meiji-era Western-style architecture. Its symmetrical facade, weatherboard siding, sash windows, and ornamental carvings illustrate how Western building styles reached rural Japan. Located near the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano Kodo trail and the crystal-clear Choshi River.

Barely 19 square meters, Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji storehouse is a copper-clad dozo whose board skirting and sea-cucumber plaster join it to the street wall.

Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji main building, in old Kuwamachi, Iga-Ueno, holds eleven tatami guest rooms with tokonoma, carved transoms and a gazebo-style hall ceiling.

Ryokan Kunrakuso's gate and wall form the street face of a late-Meiji Iga-Ueno inn: a 12-meter wall, 3.3 meters high, a tiled gate, and a black-plastered upper line.