Meiji

Meiji Village Koda Rohan Residence Kagyuan, listed in 2003, is the Tokyo home the novelist rented for about 10 years. See its ten-mat study, deep eaves and darkroom.

Meiji Village Ministry of Industry Shinagawa Glass Factory, listed in 2004, came from a state glassworks in Tokyo. Note the English bond brick and roof monitor.

Meiji Village Kobe Yamate Western Residence Main House, listed in 2003, came from the Yamate slopes of Kobe. Verandas wrap both floors on grooved posts.

A two-storey annex from a Kobe foreign residence, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1969. It has no internal stair: the room upstairs is reached only from the main house.

A cast-iron light tower first lit in 1904 on an island in Hiroshima Bay, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1976. Four stacked cylinders, raised in three months as war began.

A single-storey government building of 1888 from the Tokyo Imperial Palace precinct, rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1977. White plaster and an arcade of round arches.

Framed in Seattle around 1907 from mass produced lumber, this early platform framed house later served Japanese immigrants as a church. Moved to Meiji Mura 1984.

Takeda Goichi designed this 1911 Nishinomiya villa, European below and Japanese above, with a woven ceiling over its hall. Rebuilt at Meiji Mura, registered in 2008.

Built 1897-1906 on the Nakasendo in Nagano, Meiji Village Shimizu Clinic sets segmental arches and scored plaster over a Kiso storehouse frame. Registered 2003.

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.