Meiji

The Hatta Family Residence Wall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 9.0-metre roofed wall of about 1897 with nine courses of weatherboard, joining house and storehouse.

The Hanaya Hotel Well in Bessho Onsen, Ueda City, is a late Meiji granite kerb of four cut blocks, 90 centimetres square. Registered in 2006, it still draws water.

A tiny thatched watermill hut at Hanaya Hotel in Bessho Onsen, barely a ken and a half square, with chestnut posts that resist damp and a waterwheel on its west wall.

A farmhouse of about 1909 on a slope in the Iriyamabe valley east of Matsumoto, its tall upper floor built as one undivided silkworm room. Registered 1999. Private.

An 1868 indigo dyer's townhouse moved to the Nakadana Onsen grounds in Komoro in 2002, reopened as a soba restaurant. Registered 2006; lunch needs no booking.

Built in 1873 and registered in 2012, this 35-metre plaster storehouse in Nagano City still brews sake each winter with Sai River groundwater. Tours by booking.

An early Meiji honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Sasaga, Matsumoto: a wide gable with a sparrow-dance ornament, latticed front and a formal entrance, kept as built.

A salt merchant's house rebuilt in 1890 after Omachi's great fire, the town's first fireproof dozo-zukuri machiya, with a beamed doma now part of Chojiya museum.

A late Meiji silk-raising building in Obuse, Nagano, enlarged under Taisho. Its 2 tall tiled wings carry raised ridge vents and large windows. Registered in 2011.

A long, narrow outbuilding of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, 13.3 m by 1.8 m, holding an outdoor toilet, a charcoal shed and a work shed side by side. Registered in 2011.

A single-storey barn of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster over weatherboards and a door onto the inner yard, part of the compound's front. Registered 2011.

Built around 1875 in the estate's northeast corner, this one-storey plastered storehouse in Suzaka has board cladding on its street side that runs into the wall.

Built in 1875 by a former Suzaka domain finance officer, this two-storey house keeps a samurai-style parlour with alcove and shoin bay. It is now an inn guest wing.

This 20 m tile-capped earthen wall of c. 1875 in Suzaka flanks the gatehouse on a boulder base with polished plaster skirting and hides storage inside.

Built around 1875 on the estate's northwest corner in Suzaka, this slim three-storey plastered storehouse on a stone base, with deep eaves, anchors the old street.

Built around 1875 on the estate's street front in Suzaka, this small two-storey gatehouse has plaster walls and rafters sealed in a wavy soffit, framing the facade.

Once the Maruta Clinic's X-ray room, this late Meiji plastered building in Suzaka links the main house and clinic by a covered corridor, a record of a town clinic.

Built in 1910 as a doctor's consulting wing, this Suzaka building dresses black storehouse plaster with pilasters and framed panels. It now holds inn guest rooms.

This late Meiji three-storey cocoon storehouse of Suzaka's Tajiri silk mill was rolled 180 m in 2000 to escape demolition. It now shows silk displays free of charge.

The Masuya Ryokan Storehouse is an early Meiji two-storey earthen storehouse by the inn entrance in Tazawa Onsen, on a tall stone base with black-plastered windows.