Meiji
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A mid-Meiji two-storey guest wing at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, with an open south front, verandas on each floor and an attached bath. Walter Weston stayed in 1912.
Built in 1903 beside the Nakamura main house in Otari, Nagano, this storehouse has an okiyane roof, mortar walls scored like stone and a kakego-nuri door upstairs.
Built in 1887 on the Nakamura homestead in Azumino, Nagano, this barn served silkworm rearing and rice polishing, its walls and eaves sealed in clay against fire.
The Japan Crane Association Nagano Branch Museum in Nagano City is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that preserves the former Ikeda Police Station, originally built in 1893 during the Meiji era. Discover this charming two-story Western-style wooden building featuring a hipped-roof entrance porch and exquisite lace-like barge board decorations that showcase the unique beauty of Japan's pseudo-Western architectural tradition.
Matsumoto Holy Cross Church, an Anglican church of 1910 near Matsumoto Castle, has a steep red-tiled roof, a bell tower and a Gothic interior with local touches.
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a two-storey earthen storehouse of 1879 with tiles in a hexagonal joint pattern.
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Barn in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a late Meiji timber barn nine bays long, with tie beams and divided into three earth-floored rooms.
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Ash House in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a late Meiji outbuilding for hearth ash, half exposed frame and half plaster on stone.
The Hatakoshi Family Residence Miso Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a small storehouse of 1890 with a loft, set at the west end of the storehouse row.
The Hatta Family Residence Front Gate in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a bracketed gate of about 1897, flanked by wing walls and a spiked fence; registered in 2005.
The Hatta Family Residence Main House in Matsushiro, Nagano, was rebuilt in 1897 after a great fire. Its plastered walls and projecting upper lattice are registered.
The Hatta Family Residence Storehouse in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a white-plastered storehouse of about 1897, once called the kimono-shop storehouse and moved in 1982.
The Hatta Family Residence Long Storehouse in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a single-storey clay storehouse of about 1897, 20 bays long, closing the compound's north side.
The Hatta Family Residence Wall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 9.0-metre roofed wall of about 1897 with nine courses of weatherboard, joining house and storehouse.
The Hanaya Hotel Well in Bessho Onsen, Ueda City, is a late Meiji granite kerb of four cut blocks, 90 centimetres square. Registered in 2006, it still draws water.
A tiny thatched watermill hut at Hanaya Hotel in Bessho Onsen, barely a ken and a half square, with chestnut posts that resist damp and a waterwheel on its west wall.
A farmhouse of about 1909 on a slope in the Iriyamabe valley east of Matsumoto, its tall upper floor built as one undivided silkworm room. Registered 1999. Private.
An 1868 indigo dyer's townhouse moved to the Nakadana Onsen grounds in Komoro in 2002, reopened as a soba restaurant. Registered 2006; lunch needs no booking.
Built in 1873 and registered in 2012, this 35-metre plaster storehouse in Nagano City still brews sake each winter with Sai River groundwater. Tours by booking.
An early Meiji honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Sasaga, Matsumoto: a wide gable with a sparrow-dance ornament, latticed front and a formal entrance, kept as built.