Meiji
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Erected in 1890 and moved to Dejima in 1910, this pin-connected Pratt truss is the oldest iron road bridge in Japan still carrying vehicles. Registered in 2021.
This 1890 porcelain wholesaler's house in Hasami keeps its doma, mise and zashiki plan intact. Registered in 2003, it now trades as a Hasami ware gallery and shop.
The Komaneki Bridge of 1903 at Nagasaki University, a smooth stone arch over the Nishiyama River, survives from the founding of the commercial school.
This brick warehouse of 1907 at Nagasaki University, in English bond on a granite base, is the only building left from the founding of the commercial school.
The former Kobayashi sake storehouse in Shimabara, Nagasaki, of the late Meiji period, is a huge plastered store with a three-tier roof facing the national road.
The British-built 150-ton hammerhead crane of 1909 at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki, part of a World Heritage Site, is to be lowered in December 2026.
The brick chimney of Miyazaki Shoten in Shimabara, Nagasaki, built in 1906, is round, about 12 metres tall and crowned with two rings that recall a Tuscan column.
The shochu storehouse of Miyazaki Shoten in Shimabara, Nagasaki, built in 1906, is a 2-storey clay-walled store whose south gable marks a slope near the castle.
The Miyazaki Shoten Store in Shimabara, Nagasaki, a brewer's shop of 1906, pairs a low gabled shop wing with a taller tatami-room wing on a corner plot.
Yumiharidake Observatory in Sasebo, built in 1965, is a thin concrete shell by Tsuboi Yoshikatsu resting on 3 points, with a relief by Hongo Shin and wide sea views.
Ryotei Harumi in Nagasaki, a restaurant building of 1907 west of Sofukuji, has rooms stepping back along a pond, a shoin core and sukiya rooms of prized timber.