Meiji

Discover Baiso Maid Quarters and Kitchen, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kurashiki, Okayama. Built in 1907 by the Nozaki salt dynasty, this Meiji-era villa now serves as a charming udon restaurant overlooking the Seto Inland Sea.

Discover Baiso Hanare, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kojima, Kurashiki. This exquisite sukiya-style detached pavilion was built in 1907 by the grandson of the legendary Salt King Nozaki Buzaemon, featuring plum blossom windows, Yakushima cedar ceilings, and stunning Seto Inland Sea views.

Discover Baiso Bekkan, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kurashiki, Okayama. Built in 1907 by the grandson of Japan's legendary Salt Field King, this exquisite villa showcases Kyoto-crafted sukiya architecture, sencha tea culture, and Seto Inland Sea views.

Baiso Honkan is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kojima, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. Built in 1907 as a seaside villa by the grandson of legendary salt baron Nozaki Buzaemon, it features exquisite sukiya-style architecture with a sencha tea room and thatched roof. Now operating as a popular udon restaurant, visitors can dine amid Meiji-era elegance while enjoying views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Completed in 1905, the Handayama Distribution Reservoir No. 1 in Okayama City is one of Japan's rare circular distribution reservoirs and a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Discover this beautiful Meiji-era industrial heritage of red brick and granite, nestled within the seasonal splendor of Handayama Botanical Garden.

Discover the Former Office of Handayama Water Distribution Site, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from 1905 nestled within Okayama's Handayama Botanical Garden. Part of Japan's 8th modern waterworks system.

Discover the Handayama Original Metering Room, an elegant hexagonal brick structure built in 1905 as part of Japan's 8th modern waterworks system. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property features classical Western-inspired design with granite-framed round windows, set within Okayama's beautiful Handayama Botanical Garden.

Discover Handayama No. 2 Reservoir, a rare circular brick-and-concrete waterworks facility built in 1905 in Okayama. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era engineering gem still operates today within the beautiful Handayama Botanical Garden.

Mid-Meiji retaining walls and a stone fence at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: 3.0 m walls in 3 masonry styles line a long stairway up to the shrine. Registered 2009.

Five identical stone shrines of 1892 in a row on a long stone platform behind the Akibagu sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama. Registered in April 2009.

A minimal purification pavilion of 1894 at the Akibagu of Hofukuji, Soja: stone posts, timber arms and a gabled roof over a stone basin cut with an ogee-arched base.

The mid-Meiji worship hall and connecting hall of the Akibagu at Hofukuji, Soja: a 5-bay hall with stacked gables and a rear wing of ceremony and altar rooms.

A mid-Meiji shrine sanctuary at Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama: a single bay square, just 6.1 square meters, with bracket sets and cloud-dragon carvings. Registered 2009.

The late-Meiji two-story Main Gate of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, facing east before the Buddha Hall: a single-bay gate with bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.

A mid-Meiji study hall joined to the abbot's quarters of Hofukuji in Soja, Okayama, whose 4.5-mat room has an alcove beam of natural wood. Registered in 2009.

Built in 1893 at the northwest corner of an island family's plot in Kasaoka, Okayama, this registered storehouse carries namako tilework and a banded upper wall.

Facing the lane before the main house on Manabeshima in Kasaoka, Okayama, this early Meiji gate bends the four-legged type: shallow depth, coloured earth facade.

Salt money built this 1891 house in Kojima. Six columns carry an open upper verandah in colonial style, a rare survival among Okayama's Meiji Western buildings.

The smallest of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this household store links to the parlor and is floored in tatami above. Registered 2024.

An early-Meiji dozo at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, plastered to the eaves and pairing an open rice store with a household strongroom. Registered 2024.