Taishō
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An 18 m concrete pier of about 1919 at Kitadaito's West Port, where twin rail grooves carried phosphate rock to barges. Registered in 2006; view it from the shore.
Sunjaga Well in Itoman, Okinawa's first registered cultural property: a Taisho-era limestone village well with a roofed basin, incense burners and New Year rites.
A red-tiled 1925 house in Ishigaki, Okinawa, built by a postal worker from salt-cured island timber, with a ridge-beam charm and two front rooms joined as one space.
The former boiler house at the West Port of Minamidaito, Okinawa, built around 1924 of coral limestone, powered the hauling of boats ashore in typhoons.
The 1923 living wing of a doctor's clinic-and-home, moved in 1980 to what is now Ishigaki Yaima Village. Open, post-free rooms, a carved entrance, a daily folk show.