Meiji

The mid-Meiji detached house of the Arinaga headman's estate in Kunisaki, Oita, registered in 2000, on a tortoiseshell stone base and now a training hall.

Built in 1879 in Taketa's castle town, this Sato townhouse combined shop and home, with an earthen shop floor, a through passage and a white upper front. Visiting.

The Sato former miso storehouse, built 1879 in Taketa, turns a white gable to the street between two townhouses, with a lean-to passage in front. What to look for.

The Sato Main House is an 1879 townhouse in Taketa's old castle town, with bracketed degeta eaves and white plaster above. How sources differ and what you can see.

Behind the Sato townhouses in Taketa stands a small two-storey earthen storehouse of about 1879, plastered white with few windows, keeping a merchant compound whole.

A late-Meiji sukiya-style annex of about 1909 facing the inlet of Oga harbour in Hiji, Oita, with a hipped roof, gabled porch and polished-log rafters. How to visit.

The Jodoji Temple Front Gate in Oita is a late Meiji four-legged gate with fan rafters, a coffered ceiling and carved dragons, baku and lions before the Main Hall.

The Jodoji Temple Daibenzaiten Stone Shrine in Oita is a 1911 miniature shrine carved from four blocks of local tuff, with brackets and rafters cut in stone.

The main hall of the Higashi Betsuin in Usa, rebuilt in 1880 after fire. One of Kyushu's largest Shin Buddhist halls, with a broad plan and a decorated inner sanctuary.

The Sekisaki Lighthouse of 1901 at the eastern tip of the Saganoseki Peninsula, Oita, is an 11-metre iron tower of riveted plate, a rare Meiji-era iron lighthouse.

Built in 1872 by local carpenter Higashi Hidezo, this small Usuki townhouse carries deep eaves on projecting brackets above latticed windows. A private home.

Fujiya Ryokan Stone Wall in Kannawa, Beppu: a 71 m zigzag retaining wall of 1898 whose fitted tortoise-shell masonry turns to rough field stone past the steps.

Fujiya Ryokan Stone Steps in Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 flight 2.1 m wide to match the gate above, with thick slab treads and a north face near tortoise-shell masonry.

Fujiya Ryokan Main House, Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 two-storey timber inn of two hipped wings, keeping its old shikidai entrance. Now a café and hall; registered 2001.

Fujiya Ryokan Front Gate in Kannawa, Beppu: a 2.1 m yakuimon of 1898 set atop stone steps, facing the inn's old formal entrance as an eye-stop. Registered in 2001.

The Bungo Channel Maritime Museum in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture, is a Western-style brick building constructed in 1904 as a rest house for the keepers of the Mizunokojima Lighthouse. Designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era structure now houses fascinating exhibits including a Fresnel lens formerly used in the lighthouse and a unique collection of migratory bird specimens, preserving the maritime heritage of the Bungo Channel.

A 172-meter stone perimeter wall built in 1904 on the Tsurumi Peninsula in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture. Originally enclosing the rest house compound of lighthouse keepers who maintained the Mizunokojima Lighthouse in the Bungo Strait, the wall features distinctive concrete cap stones and has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998. The adjacent Maritime Museum displays the lighthouse's Fresnel lens and exhibits on the lives of the keepers.

West of the Hoashi branch bathhouse, a mid-Meiji well house on a cut-stone platform shelters a rectangular stone well curb under a gabled pantile roof.

In the Hoashi branch compound's southwest corner, a mid-Meiji 2-story wing joins a gabled back-gate block at a right angle, its double doors opening to the rear.

Built in 1889 on the Hoashi branch estate's western edge, this 2-story grain store of 7 by 3 bays has two doors under a full-length lean-to and a raised floor.