Meiji

Standing in the Kawagishi district of Okaya City, Nagano Prefecture, the Chuo Printing Company Building (Former Katakura Group Office) is a wood-frame two-story Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1910 as the headquarters of the Katakura Group, the largest silk-reeling enterprise in Japan. Built within the grounds of the Kakigai Silk Reeling Factory — Katakura's birthplace — its dignified facade combines artificial stone pier columns with brick walls, while a Western-style first floor pairs with a Japanese hall above. Selected in the very first round of registrations in 1996, it remains an evocative monument of 'SILK OKAYA.'

This three-story wing in Suzaka, Nagano, joins the shop by a covered passage. Its ground-floor reception rooms hold an alcove and writing bay, with bedrooms above.

Built in mid-Meiji Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story kimono shop has a black plastered upper wall, projecting eaves and a lattice window. Registered in 2016.

Nagano Holy Savior Church, a brick church of 1898 registered in 2006, is a fine small medieval-style chapel with a pointed doorway, a rose window and buttresses.

The Nagano Meijo East Barn, a 1907 storehouse at a Chikuma sake brewery, held a miso room and retirement quarters. Unlike its neighbours, it has a Western truss.

The Nagano Meijo Document Storehouse, an early Meiji strongroom at a Chikuma sake brewery, guards family valuables behind black plaster and stepped fireproof doors.

A square Meiji timber building at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino whose roof is split at the ridge: boards weighted with stones on the south, sheet metal on the north.

A mid-Meiji two-storey guest wing at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, with an open south front, verandas on each floor and an attached bath. Walter Weston stayed in 1912.

Built in 1903 beside the Nakamura main house in Otari, Nagano, this storehouse has an okiyane roof, mortar walls scored like stone and a kakego-nuri door upstairs.

Built in 1887 on the Nakamura homestead in Azumino, Nagano, this barn served silkworm rearing and rice polishing, its walls and eaves sealed in clay against fire.

The Japan Crane Association Nagano Branch Museum in Nagano City is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that preserves the former Ikeda Police Station, originally built in 1893 during the Meiji era. Discover this charming two-story Western-style wooden building featuring a hipped-roof entrance porch and exquisite lace-like barge board decorations that showcase the unique beauty of Japan's pseudo-Western architectural tradition.

Matsumoto Holy Cross Church, an Anglican church of 1910 near Matsumoto Castle, has a steep red-tiled roof, a bell tower and a Gothic interior with local touches.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a two-storey earthen storehouse of 1879 with tiles in a hexagonal joint pattern.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Barn in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a late Meiji timber barn nine bays long, with tie beams and divided into three earth-floored rooms.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Ash House in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a late Meiji outbuilding for hearth ash, half exposed frame and half plaster on stone.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Miso Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a small storehouse of 1890 with a loft, set at the west end of the storehouse row.

The Hatta Family Residence Front Gate in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a bracketed gate of about 1897, flanked by wing walls and a spiked fence; registered in 2005.

The Hatta Family Residence Main House in Matsushiro, Nagano, was rebuilt in 1897 after a great fire. Its plastered walls and projecting upper lattice are registered.

The Hatta Family Residence Storehouse in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a white-plastered storehouse of about 1897, once called the kimono-shop storehouse and moved in 1982.

The Hatta Family Residence Long Storehouse in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a single-storey clay storehouse of about 1897, 20 bays long, closing the compound's north side.