Taishō

West of the No. 27 wing at the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Inner Building of about 1920 was listed for its detailing, above all the cherry wood alcove lintel.

North of the entrance at the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Castle Building of 1920 wraps both storeys in renji lattice windows under plastered eaves.

At the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Office Building of 1918 holds the reception desk below and the dining hall above, its north end forming the inn's entrance.

A Taisho-era plastered storehouse east of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. The ground floor stored goods; the upper floor, beams left exposed, became a guest room.

Built in 1916, the main bathhouse sits west of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. A single-storey timber hall, its raised vent ridge draws off the steam of a busy bath.

A two-storey timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel, with guest rooms below and an upper hall whose ceiling combines coffered panels with a flat mirrored expanse.

A Taisho-era timber wing at Hanaya Hotel, extended in 1949. The kitchen sits below, and a coffered banquet hall framed by corridors and alcoves sits above.

A 1918 detached wing by the bathhouse at Hanaya Hotel. Two guest rooms sit side by side, each an eight-mat room with an anteroom and a private bath, open to the garden.

A timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel. Its two guest rooms take the linked-room shoin form, with wide verandas and private baths, notable for quality and scale.

The 1918 main building at Hanaya Hotel, near the centre of the grounds. Both floors hold eight-mat guest rooms with anterooms and wide verandas, built with fine joinery.

Fujiya Ryokan, located on the Zenkoji Temple approach in Nagano City, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property originally established as an official feudal lord's inn during the Edo period and rebuilt in 1925 as a striking blend of Art Deco exterior and traditional sukiya-style interior. This iconic landmark now operates as THE FUJIYA GOHONJIN restaurant and wedding venue.

Three chambers and a cylinder of concrete by the Naraigawa: where spring water entered Matsumoto's first waterworks in 1922, an arrangement not easily reproduced.

A forty-square-metre timber shed of 1922 with a king-post truss, standing among concrete and Art Deco neighbours. It still stores the paperwork it was built for.

Buried under grass at Joyama, a vaulted concrete reservoir of 1,518 square metres held Matsumoto's drinking water and let gravity carry it down to the city below.

A concrete tank 3.34 metres across, wrapped in a patterned brick drum with the city waterworks emblem above its door. Pumping ended here in 1923; gravity took over.

Marutakagura Kajikazawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a gabled dozo storehouse said to have come from a Fuji River wharf town in 1915. It was listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Kissawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a 710-square-metre dozo storehouse said to have been a Yamanashi spinning mill before its move in 1915. Listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Tenpo in Suwa, Nagano, is a honmune-zukuri farmhouse said to have been moved from Kiso Yabuhara in 1918. Registered in 2011; viewable from the street.

At Otari Onsen in deep Nagano, Yamada Ryokan's 1926 bathhouse shelters the historic Utsutsu-no-yu spring. A two-story wooden Taisho-period building with Western-influenced interiors, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2001.