Meiji

Squeezed between two neighbours on a stone wall in Saku, Nagano: an earth floor, exposed roof timbers, a built-in rice bin, and a roof with no gable ends. Meiji era.

The smallest of four registered buildings on a Saku farmstead in Nagano: a near-square timber box of 21 square metres, throwing out a lattice and a bay window.

The Shiohara Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Matsumoto is a granary of about 1907, registered in 2004 for its form, with namako walls and a floating roof.

Early Meiji street-front shop of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a shop below and retirement rooms behind projecting eaves; listed in 2007 with its gate.

Early Meiji grain store at Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with long exposed beams and old stock notes on its walls. Listed in 2007, it now hosts piano concerts.

Early Meiji household storehouse east of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano; the smallest of ten listed in 2007, plain but for its carved doorway.

Early Meiji soy sauce storehouse of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a latticed street gable. Listed in 2007, it still presses mash and is on the free tour.

Early Meiji shop and home of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano: a 210-square-metre merchant front, listed in 2007 and still the brewery's miso and soy sauce outlet.

Late Meiji reception wing southeast of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with a garden corridor, an alcove room and an anteroom. Listed in 2007.

Early Meiji two-storey document storehouse at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with namako tiling, stepped plaster doors and black plaster trim. Listed in 2007.

The Shimaki Akahiko Lodging in Shiojiri, Nagano, an early Meiji wing of a house on the Zenkoji road, has one eight-mat room under a gable with a crest ornament.

A two-storey earthen storehouse from the Kurosu estate in Iida's old samurai quarter, rebuilt in the late Meiji era with reused chestnut posts and lean-tos.

The main gate of Jotokuin in Nagano City, a yakuimon gate of the early Meiji period opening onto the street, has carved beam ends and a wicket door in its side wall.

The main hall of Shorenji in Matsushiro, Nagano, built in 1887, is a True Pure Land temple hall whose short-ridged hipped roof is typical of the old castle town.

The worship hall of Shirahige Shrine in Kinasa, Nagano, a timber hall of 1878 east of the Important Cultural Property main hall, has a showy front of layered gables.

A two-storey English-bond brick store of 1895 on Shinshu University's Nagano campus, built for the prefectural office and restored in 2017 as the Red Brick Hall.

The former cocoon storehouse of Ueda Sericultural College, a late-Meiji brick building with iron-shuttered windows and two kinds of arch, now the faculty museum.

The West Storehouse of the Suyama family in Kiso-Hirasawa, Nagano, an 1899 granary moved in the early Showa era, has namako-kabe tiling and plain plaster above.

A single-arch brick bridge of 1900 on the Shinonoi Line in Chikuma, Nagano. Ashlar abutments and over-fired brickwork survive from Japan's state railway era.

A late-Meiji preparation cellar at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, notable for interior posts built up from bolted planks. Listed as hard to recreate.