Meiji
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A 1910 timber storehouse at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, with board walls now sheathed in steel, high windows and a king post truss. Registered in 2019.
A 9.9 m² brick oil store of 1910 at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, that held fuel for carriage lamps; brick cornice and pediments. Registered in 2019.
The Saito family's 1908 reception wing, re-erected in Hakusan Park at Niigata. Sukiya rooms, unjointed 18-metre beams, a buried water chime, and free admission.
Enjinsonsha in Sanjo, Niigata: the tiny cedar-bark study where Morohashi Tetsuji compiled the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, now in his memorial museum garden and free to see.
Rather than a costly steel viaduct, engineers filled a ravine at Myoko in 1887 and drove a brick-arched stone culvert through its base. Registered back in 2021.
Built in the first autumn of Meiji, this single-storey townhouse keeps the older form of the Takada machiya, with a gangi arcade over the pavement. Registered 2012.
The Onsen Onyado Ryugon Main Building in Minamiuonuma is an early Meiji farmhouse moved here in 1969, with projecting chumon wings, now part of the inn ryugon.
The Kaichi Shrine Worship Hall at Inari Shrine, Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built 1871 and moved 1969, honors the market's founders and has a porch shaped like a torii.
Kappo Tochu Ue-no-kura in Ojiya, Niigata, is a Meiji-era storehouse whose ground floor became a billiard room before the war. It was registered in 2015.
A late Meiji two-storey pavilion on a rise at the Kansuiro inn in Agano, Niigata, with wraparound verandas, a classic alcove and glass doors. Registered in 2021.
Built in 1910 in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, the front wing of the former restaurant Ariake keeps a curved porch and a second floor overhanging the alley.
Shaped natural stones stacked six courses and capped with coping form the wall framing the Kina saffron sake compound and giving Nagaoka's Settaya a street-side face.
Standing alone at the north of the grounds, this storehouse is the oldest survivor from when brewing began here, its gable shaped into the character for good fortune.
Behind a heavy gabled porch and its old saffron-sake signboard, the 469-square-metre timber main house in Nagaoka opens for guided visits on weekends and holidays.
The Gyokusendo Store in Tsubame is a late-Meiji shop registered in 2008 for its design. Tatami rooms line an earth-floored passage, and it still sells copper.
Just fifteen square metres, this 1877 storehouse adjoins a soy sauce works. Note the set-on tiled roof, notched weatherboarding and black plaster window frames.
A registered Meiji house in Sekiya, Niigata, raised after the Boshin War burned its predecessor in 1868. Exposed gable framing, bold beams, shoin rooms. Not open.
An 1882 earthen-walled kura beside the Nakanokuchi River, set on high ground against flood. Heavy rafters, close-set posts. Registered 2023. Privately held.
A small detached room of middle Meiji date, open south onto a garden. Shoin alcove, tokonoma, a round tea hearth in the floor. Registered 2023. Not open.
The oldest of the five Sakata buildings in Gosen, Niigata, dating to early Meiji. Small but soundly built, its black-plastered openings open the estate's history.