Taishō
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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.
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.