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Browse Oita’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Araki Family Residence Sake Storehouse
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Araki Family Residence Sake Storehouse

Araki Family Residence Sake Storehouse in Kusu, Oita: an 18 m earthen kura of 1914 with a Western truss roof, rounded plaster around openings and tile-lined hoods.

Araki Family Residence Main House
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Araki Family Residence Main House

The 1922 Araki Family Residence Main House in Mori, Kusu, Oita: deep bracketed eaves on both floors, a plastered upper story and a rooftop gable shrine to Hotei.

Inoue Family Residence Stone Wall
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Inoue Family Residence Stone Wall

The Inoue Family Residence Stone Wall in Hita, Oita, is a 25-metre garden wall of around 1914, on a riverside base of rounded stones, pierced by a round window.

Inoue Family Residence Rice Storehouse
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Inoue Family Residence Rice Storehouse

The Inoue Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Hita, Oita, is a 110-square-metre riverside store of 1914, rare for its plastered ceiling, near steps to the river.

Inoue Family Residence Main House
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Inoue Family Residence Main House

The Inoue Family Residence Main House in Hita, Oita, is a 1914 timber home of 435 square metres whose tiled roof rises into a half-timbered gable by the gate.

Inoue Family Residence Gate
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Inoue Family Residence Gate

The Inoue Family Residence Gate in Hita, Oita, is a tiled four-legged gate of around 1914, 2.8 metres wide, its main posts set forward of the ridge like a yakuimon.

Inoue Sake Brewery Store and Main House
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Inoue Sake Brewery Store and Main House

Built in 1914 at Inoue Sake Brewery in Hita, Oita, this shop and home grew from a thatched single storey to two tiled floors in 1943, with a shikidai porch and doma.

Iwao Family Residence (Former Nihongan Pharmaceutical Works) Main House
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Iwao Family Residence (Former Nihongan Pharmaceutical Works) Main House

A late-Taisho townhouse in Hita, Oita, raised to three floors by an early Showa lookout, with a karahafu roof, a 24-mat hall and a roof garden. Registered in 2003.

Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall
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Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall

Kasuga Shrine Worship Hall in Bungotakada, Oita, is a long, open 1921 hall of the regional kairo type, with painted Edo-period carvings reused on its facade.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate

Kayashima Sake Brewery Back Gate in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1914 rear gate whose pair of brick posts survive, while its iron leaves, gabled roof and shutter came later.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney

Kayashima Sake Brewery Chimney in Kunisaki, Oita, is an octagonal brick chimney of 1914 with iron bands, a local landmark; sources give its height as 17 m or 20 m.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room

Kayashima Sake Brewery Former Koji Room in Kunisaki, Oita, is a board-clad 1915 koji room with a small gable vent, now used to age ginjo sake; registered in 1998.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Rice Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 plastered storehouse on the road with board-clad lower walls, the brewery's face with chimney.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is the site's largest building, a two-storey hall of 1914 with a truss roof under a great hipped roof.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura (Pressing House)
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura (Pressing House)

Kayashima Sake Brewery Nakagura in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1915 pressing house 4 by 26 ken, roofed with king post trusses and clad in boards like the brewing hall.

Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse
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Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse

Kayashima Sake Brewery Gate Storehouse in Kunisaki, Oita, is a 1916 timber gateway and storeroom attached to the rice storehouse, with exposed posts and wainscot.

Jodoji Temple North Gate
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Jodoji Temple North Gate

The Jodoji Temple North Gate in Oita, built in 1925, is a gabled four-legged gate with shachi on its ridge and an unusual plate block under its head beam.

Taketa Branch of the Taketa City Community Hall (former Ichimiro)
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Taketa Branch of the Taketa City Community Hall (former Ichimiro)

Built around 1913 as the Ichimiro restaurant beside the Inaba River in Taketa, Oita, this wooden hall keeps tatami rooms below and a staged banquet room above.

Chikushitei Shuoku
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Chikushitei Shuoku

The main building of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, built in 1914 and extended in 1922, wraps two courtyards in a closed ring plan and holds a 52-mat hall upstairs.

Chikushitei Hanare
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Chikushitei Hanare

The detached wing of Chikushitei in Nakatsu, Oita, sits across a water channel behind the main house: three late-Taisho volumes, each alcove built differently.