Meiji

Built in 1903 for the local war dead, this single-bay memorial hall at Hōshuin spans about 20 square meters, its porch carved with Rising Sun motifs of its era.

Hidden in the precincts of a quiet Pure Land temple in Tsushima, Aichi, the Hosenji Shoin (former Hattori Family Residence Shoin) is a refined sukiya-style shoin originally built around the 1890s for a wealthy fertilizer merchant and donated to the temple in 1930. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, it preserves the elegant tokonoma alcove, paulownia transoms, polished round timbers, and a small tea room with shitaji-mado windows that defined refined Meiji-era town-merchant architecture. A perfect addition to a heritage walk that includes Tsushima Shrine and the Hotta Family Residence.

The Horibe Family Residence Workshop is an 1893 storeroom, farm shed, and silkworm room on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, registered in 2006. Plan and visiting.

Built in 1883 by a former Naruse retainer turned silk grower, this is the only samurai-style house left in Inuyama's castle town. A spear rack recalls its warrior past.

A thick-walled kura from 1893 at the Horibe Residence in Inuyama. Plaster and dark boarding give it the classic armor of a storehouse, built for a silk-trading family.

The Horibe Family Residence Corridor is an 1893 covered passage on a former samurai plot in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2006. Layout, walls, and visiting hours.

This middle Meiji storehouse in Handa City has walls plastered to the eaves and a single window. Linked to the main house by a corridor, it was registered in 2024.

Built around 1884 on the Morozaki road in Handa City, this merchant house pairs a working plan of seven rooms with tea-room detailing, and was registered in 2024.

The Mano Family Residence Main House is an 1894 two-story townhouse at the south gateway to Inuyama castle town, registered in 2005 for its toriniwa plan and lattice

The Mano Family Residence High Wall is an 1894 roofed timber wall, 29 meters long and 5 meters high, at a lender's compound in Inuyama castle town; registered 2005.

The Mano Family Residence Storehouse is an 1894 two-story earthen-walled kura of 121 square meters at the back of a lender's compound in Inuyama, registered in 2005.

The Mano Family Residence Detached Room is an 1894 single-story guest pavilion with an 8-mat tatami room behind a lender's main house in Inuyama, registered in 2005.

Discover the Main Hall of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1896 by renowned master carpenter Onoda Matazō. Explore its 1,200-year history, stunning carvings, and ancient trees.

An 1889 timber townhouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Projecting eaves, wooden lattice below and iron lattice above. Exterior only.

A single-storey timber wing of the middle Meiji era in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. It runs south from the townhouse passage and holds the bath and lavatory.

An early Meiji merchant house on the old Seto highway in Owariasahi, the Miyake Family Residence Main House hides a six-room farmhouse plan behind a townhouse face.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.

In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.

The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.

The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.