Meiji

Built in 1908 for a Tokyo college hall that no longer exists, this 6.9-meter carriage porch was re-erected at Meiji Mura in 1980 with four matching faces.

A 23-meter length of the 1912 Shin-Ohashi, moved from the Sumida River to Meiji Mura in 1975. Art Nouveau railings meet granite newels, and you can walk across.

Dedicated in Kyoto in 1890 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1973, this church carries a full Gothic scheme in Japanese zelkova, under a 3.6-meter rose window.

Built in 1909 for the Eighth Higher School in Nagoya, this brick gate carries three granite bands on each pier and iron leaves patterned with rings and spirals.

Built in 1879 on the island of Iojima off Nagasaki, this timber church wears a tiled Japanese roof outside and holds a three-aisled late Gothic interior within.

Built around 1908 in snowbound Takada, this studio glazed its whole north roof to catch even daylight. Moved to Meiji Mura in 1982, registered in 2004.

Built around 1897 and moved twice before reaching Museum Meiji-mura, this two-story timber schoolhouse wraps an arcade of segmental arches around its ground floor.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea house of about 1877, built in a Kyoto garden and now at Museum Meiji-mura, where sliding doors open the room onto a tiled earth floor.

An iron workshop of 1889 from Shinbashi Station in Tokyo, rebuilt at Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama. Its columns, trusses and window sashes were all cast in Japan.

Built about 1872 as a locomotive repair shop at Shinbashi Station, its iron shipped from Liverpool. It now holds the Machinery Pavilion at Museum Meiji-mura, Aichi.

Step onto the Tendō Spectacle Bridge at Meiji-mura, a graceful 1887 stone arch bridge originally built in Yamagata's Tendō. Crafted from local Yamadera stone with a distinctive horizontal deck inspired by Roman aqueducts, it stands as a quiet masterpiece of Meiji-era civil engineering preserved in Aichi's open-air museum.

Tucked into the Japanese Garden of Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama, Aichi, the Tokyo School for the Blind Porte-cochère is a registered tangible cultural property that preserves the elegantly designed entrance porch of a 1910 Tokyo school building. Three free-standing arches, refined plant and geometric ornament, and half-timber detailing capture the artistic peak of late Meiji school architecture.

The 1911 front block of the Meiji government's central library in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Okuma Yoshikuni, with four Doric half-columns under a carved pediment.

A wing of 1910 added behind an 1889 settlement house in Nagasaki, now at Museum Meiji-Mura. A western room, two tatami rooms, a corridor treated as half outdoors.

A colonial house of 1889 moved from the Nagasaki foreign settlement to Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi. Veranda posts, a plaster-ridged roof, restored wood-grain doors.

One of four ornamental lamp standards from the bridge at the Imperial Palace gate, cast in Germany in 1888 and re-erected at Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi in 1965.

One of nine timber wards built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo by Katayama Tokuma, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.

A timber lavatory block of 10 square meters, built in 1890 for the Japanese Red Cross Central Hospital in Tokyo, moved to Meiji-Mura in 1974 and registered in 2004.

Meiji Village Hawaii Immigrant Assembly Hall was built in Hilo around 1889 for Japanese immigrants, moved to Meiji Mura in 1969, and registered in 2004.

Meiji Village Handa Azumayu Bathhouse, a port town sento built at Kamezaki in Handa around 1910 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1980, was registered in 2004.