Meiji

Meiji Village Sixth Infantry Regiment Barracks, built in Nagoya Castle in 1873 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1965, is a rare garrison era block registered in 2004.

A late Meiji barbershop moved from Tokyo to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with the 2 upstairs rooms where Ishikawa Takuboku lived.

A wooden prison cell house of 1888 moved from Maebashi to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2004, with chestnut lattice enclosing 9 cells.

An 1888 schoolhouse by the engineer Shimizu Yoshiya, built in Tsu, reused in Nabari, moved to the Museum Meiji-mura in Inuyama and registered in 2003.

An 1886 courtroom moved from Miyazu to Meiji Mura: raised judge's bench, open eaves, arched door, plus admission, hours and access details for visitors.

A 1912 substation for the Nagoya Electric Railway, now at Meiji Mura: arched openings, corner buttresses, an exposed queen post truss, with hours and access.

The Sendagi house rented in turn by Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki, now at Meiji Mura: a middle Meiji home where I Am a Cat was written, with visitor details.

A 1907 bank in Aizu-Wakamatsu built as a fireproof earthen storehouse, its black-plastered shell enclosing a full-height hall with fluted columns and a gallery.

One of six wrought-iron spans from Japan's first double-track railway bridge, built 1877 and rebuilt at Museum Meiji-Mura with its Liverpool maker's plates intact.

A reception wing of about 1902 in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Three rooms run inward: a tea room, an antechamber, then a dais room said to follow the Omotesenke Zangetsutei.

A timber gate of 1908 in Kanie, Aichi. Brackets carry a tiled gabled roof over a 3.8 meter opening, with plastered wing walls. Listed 2011; visible from the road.

An 1893 tea room in Kanie, Aichi, built under the design guidance of Yoshida Shokei of Omotesenke. Four and a half mats, 35 square meters. Registered 2011, closed.

A single-storey timber shed in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1909 to hold a three-tier festival float. Its 7-metre eaves and 4.55-metre frontage follow the float.

A mid-Meiji machiya at the junction of two old highways in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Its plot still follows a late Edo castle map showing a notice board.

The Yoshino Family Residence in Inuyama, Aichi, had five buildings listed in 2013, and all were struck from the register on 10 February 2026 after demolition.

Built in 1878 as an exposition appraisal hall in Nagoya and used as Emperor Meiji's temporary seat, this timber hall moved to Atsuta Shrine in 1968. Registered 2001.

Standing on the quiet hilltop of Takabari in Meitō Ward, Nagoya, the Renkyō-ji Bell Tower is a small but exquisite wooden structure built in 1882. Featuring a hip-and-gable tile roof, splayed round columns, a deeply coffered ceiling, and charming turtle carvings on its gables, this Meiji-era treasure was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017. Set within the precincts of a temple whose history reaches back over a thousand years, it offers travellers a tranquil encounter with traditional Japanese craftsmanship.

At the south-east corner of Renkei-ji in Agui, Aichi, this east-facing great gate of 1896 rests on unusually dense packed bracketry. Registered nationally in 2013.

Held in the Hosa Library in Nagoya, the Song Edition of the Taiping Shenghui Fang (Kanazawa Bunko Version) is a Southern Song printed copy of the imperial medical encyclopedia originally compiled in 100 volumes by Wang Huaiyin under the command of Emperor Taizong. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it traveled from Hōjō Sanetoki's Kanazawa Bunko through Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Tokugawa Ieyasu to the first Owari lord Tokugawa Yoshinao. The 24 surviving printed booklets, supplemented by 27 Keichō-era manuscript volumes, bear the distinctive 'Kanazawa Bunko' and 'Gohon' seals on every volume, making it a primary witness to East Asian medical history.

A Meiji wax merchant's estate in Uchiko, Ehime. Ten listed buildings keep the cauldron house and bleaching yard beside the living rooms. Open as a wax museum.