Taishō

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2008, this detached wing of a Takatsuki mountain farmhouse sets two parallel rows of rooms, one formal, one sukiya.

Discover Osaka's Waterworks Museum, a beautifully preserved 1914 Neo-Renaissance red brick pumping station. Registered Tangible Cultural Property, free admission, and a hidden gem of Taisho-era industrial architecture.

Discover the Semba Building in Osaka, a 1925 registered tangible cultural property featuring a stunning open-air patio courtyard, Art Deco details, and Taisho-era charm in the heart of Semba.

Discover Taiyoshi Hyakuban, a Taisho-era former pleasure quarter building now serving as a renowned restaurant. Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2000, this Osaka landmark features Momoyama-style ornamentation and rooms inspired by the Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.

The Takahashi Family Residence in Minoh, Osaka is a Western-style mansion built around 1919 as a villa for sugar trade magnate Arima Hikokichi. Featuring an English-style steep slate roof, stained glass windows, and numerous bay windows, it is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property and was the first Scenery Important Building designated in Osaka Prefecture.

Built in 1922 as the headquarters of Aikoku Savings Bank, Dobuike Textile Hall is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property on Dobuike-suji in Osaka's Semba district. After serving as a textile wholesale hub in the postwar era, the building underwent an innovative 2016 renovation that revealed its hidden Taisho-era facade. Discover the charm of this century-old modern architecture with its tile-clad walls and elegant curved corners.

One of Japan's oldest Protestant churches, founded in 1874. The Romanesque-style red brick church designed by architect W.M. Vories in 1922 features a striking rose window and timber-trussed chapel. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property and Osaka Prefectural Cultural Property. A 5-minute walk from Higobashi Station.

A Taisho-era working shed on the Fujii estate in Higashiosaka, roofed with round poles over a packed earth floor: the plain end of a carefully graded residence.

The Miki Gakki headquarters building, known as the Osaka Kaiseikan, is a reinforced concrete structure completed in 1924 to mark the centennial of Japan's oldest music store, founded in 1825. Modeled after a German instrument maker's headquarters, this Taisho-era commercial building features stained glass by Kiuchi Shintaro, marble staircases, and terracotta ornamentation. Having survived the World War II air raids, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 1997.

The Mizuma Railway Mizuma Station building in Kaizuka City, Osaka, is a reinforced concrete terminal station completed in 1926 during the Taishō period. Featuring a distinctive blend of a Buddhist stupa-inspired central tower and Western-style cylindrical projections, this unique structure was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1999. Discover its architectural charm and the history of the Mizuma Railway, originally built as a pilgrimage line to the ancient Mizumadera temple.

The stone retaining wall of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a 19-meter dry-laid wall of rounded fieldstones that curves along a steep road and rises to about five meters.

The kitchen wing of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, its smallest registered building at about 12 square meters, with a well and sink on a fully stone-paved floor.

The north and east walls of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a roofed boundary wall of about 25 meters from 1912, with black plaster, red posts and accent ridge tiles.

The thatched main house of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, built in 1912, its working doma fronting formal rooms of fine craftsmanship, listed as hard to reproduce.

Storehouse 1 of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a tall 1912 dozo at the northwest corner, white plaster above charred cedar boarding giving it a striking street presence.

Storehouse 2 of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, a small 1912 dozo joined to the larger corner store, its cornice molding marking careful work despite a modest size.

The west wall of the Mezan Atsushi Residence, an 11-meter roofed wall of 1912 set on the stone base, its height shifting with the slope to keep the top line level.

Minutes from Osaka's Umeda towers, a 42-metre Taisho-era timber wall and gate, listed in 2008, frames one of the city's last surviving nagaya row-house lanes.

The Risai family annex in Kaizuka's old temple town, built around 1924, holds a Western room with original fireplace tiles, stained glass, and period lighting.

Built in 1917 by Takeda Goichi, the Phoenix Pavilion of Ryuan-ji stands above the Minoo River in Osaka, echoing the Byodo-in Phoenix Hall on the path to the falls.